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Morality has been a difficult, indeed formidable, concept for psychology to handle because of the challenges inherent in the ambiguity of its definition and hence in its appropriate method of investigation. Despite these basic definitional and methodological challenges, morality has been widely recognized as a fundamental and pervasive aspect of human functioning because it refers to one’s basic values and way of life. Our own individual struggles in living the “good” life, the difficulties we sometimes encounter in relating to others, and the moral tensions prevalent in broader society all place morality front-and-center within psychology’s mandate.
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Walker, L. (2004). Kohlberg and the Structural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology. In: Thomasma, D.C., Weisstub, D.N. (eds) The Variables of Moral Capacity. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2552-5_3
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