Psychological Development and Education ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (6): 664-672.

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Embodied Morality:A New Approach in Moral Psychology

CHEN Xiao1,2, JIANG Qi1,2, HOU Min1,2, ZHU Meng-yin1,2   

  1. 1. Faculty of Psychological Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715;
    2. Mental Health Research Center of Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2014-11-15 Published:2014-11-15

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Abstract: The embodied morality is that the physical and its activities have an interactive impact with moral psychology and behavior. The research paradigms of embodied morality are including moral Stroop, implicit association test, the paradigm of situation change, and the paradigm of mood change. Embodied morality combines the effects of body anatomy, perception experience and the interaction of body and environment with moral psychology and behavior. In the relationships with perception experience and moral psychology, it includes the relationship between physical disgust and moral, self-cleanness and moral purity metaphor, moral-lightness metaphor, moral-color metaphor, the spatial dimension of moral and the time dimension of moral. Future research should enrich and improve the research contents, study the metaphorical cultural differences and consistency effect, use of various methods and techniques and so on.

Key words: embodied morality, embodied cognition, moral psychology, moral behavior

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  • B844.3

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