Taking Moral Action

Provides a systematic framework for understanding and shaping moral action

Taking Moral Action offers a timely and comprehensive overview of the emerging field of moral psychology, introducing readers to one of the most vibrant areas of research in contemporary psychology. With an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, authors Chuck Huff and Almut Furchert incorporate a wide range of empirical findings, scientific theory, and their interconnections with philosophical and theological approaches. This allows them to systematically explore the complex network of influences, contexts, and processes involved in producing and structuring moral action.

Integrating key empirical and theoretical literature, this unique volume helpsreaders grasp the different aspects of bothhabitual and intentional acts of moral action. Thematically organized chapters examine moral action in contexts such as evolution, moral ecology, personality, moral identity and the self, moral reason, moral emotion, and more. Each chapter features a discussion of how neuroscience underlies or supports the influence and process addressed. Throughout the book, historical stories of moral action and examples of humanistic and experiential traditions of moral formation highlight what is possible, relevant, and appropriate intaking moral action in a variety of settings.

• Offers a framework of the variation in ways that individuals experience and construct moral identity and engage in moral action and formation 
• Reviews cultural, organizational, group, and social influences to explore how individuals actively shape their moral environment
• Discusses the integration of reason and emotion in morality and considers how individuals can change or train their moral responses and skills
• Explores the relationships among empirical psychology, philosophy, and theology mapping out the interdisciplinary field of moral psychology
• Emphasizes the practical application of the science of morality in service of moral good

Taking Moral Action is essential reading for those new to the field and experienced practitioners alike. Containing extensive references and links to further readings, Taking Moral Action is also an excellent textbook for college and university courses in areas such as psychology, ethics, theology, philosophy, anthropology, and neuroscience and in applied fields where moral action is important.

Chuck Huff is a Professor of Psychology at St. Olaf College, where he teaches courses in social psychology, ethical issues in softcare design, the psychology of good and evil, and the psychology of religion. He has published research on moral psychology, the psychology of spirituality, gender, and computing, and the social effects of electronic interaction.

Almut Furchert is a scholar and philosopher with graduate degrees in Philosophy of Religion and the Psychological Sciences. She has held academic positions at the Technical University of Munich, the Munich School of Philosophy, and the Hong Kierkegaard Library. Her research interests include the intersection of philosophy, theology, psychology and religion.

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