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Project

Moral emotions, contextual instigators and (anti)social decision-making
Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/689
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Biological psychology
    • Group and interpersonal processes
    • Social behaviour and social action
    • Causes and prevention of crime
    • Criminological theories
    • Youth and life course criminology
Keywords
randomised vignettes theory testing bias-motivated agression moral emotions self-report study
 
Project description
 
In recent decades, 'moral' emotions have been central to etiological research. This can be framed within a changed view of man in criminological theories, informed by insights from evolutionary biology. This application for Basic Research Funding is in line with my previous research on the interaction between individual and environmental characteristics and criminal decision-making. Where previously attention was paid to the role of moral norms, self-control (and their unique interaction), and the interaction with the context of action (provocations and temptations) to explain individual differences in juvenile delinquency and even politically and religiously motivated violence, the intention is to  focus on moral emotions (shame and guilt, disgust) and to pay attention to decision-making leading to bias-motivated aggression, using a factorial survey.