Wainryb Cecilia, Recchia Holly E
University of Utah, USA.
New Dir Youth Dev. 2012 Winter;2012(136):13-26, 7-8. doi: 10.1002/yd.20035.
Far from being unthinking energies or irrational impulses that control or push people around, emotions are intricately connected to the way people perceive, understand, and think about the world. As such, emotions are also an inextricable part of people's moral lives. As people go about making moral judgments and decisions, they do not merely apply abstract principles in a detached manner. Their emotions--their loves and sympathies, angers and fears, grief and sadness, guilt and shame--are inseparable from how they make sense of and evaluate their own and others' actions, the way things are, and the ways things ought to be. While this is not to say that emotions have a privileged role in morality, it does mean that emotions cannot be reasonably sidelined from the study of people's moral lives. Thus, an important part of formulating a theory of moral development is to articulate a framework for capturing children's relevant emotional experiences in the context of morally laden events. Such a framework should also help us understand how these sometimes turbulent or bewildering experiences inform, enrich, and change children's thinking about what is right and wrong and about themselves as moral agents. This article considers the research on the relation between emotion and moral thinking, offers a perspective that aims to broaden and elaborate our understanding of the connections between emotion and morality in adolescence, and sets a new agenda for research on this topic.
情绪远非控制或摆布人们的无思想的能量或非理性冲动，而是与人们感知、理解和思考世界的方式紧密相连。因此，情绪也是人们道德生活中不可或缺的一部分。当人们进行道德判断和决策时，他们并非只是以一种超然的方式应用抽象原则。他们的情绪——他们的爱与同情、愤怒与恐惧、悲伤与哀伤、内疚与羞耻——与他们理解和评价自己及他人行为的方式、事物的现状以及事物应该的样子密不可分。虽说这并不是说情绪在道德中具有特权地位，但这确实意味着在对人们道德生活的研究中，情绪不能被合理地边缘化。因此，构建道德发展理论的一个重要部分是阐明一个框架，用以捕捉儿童在充满道德意味的事件背景下的相关情感体验。这样一个框架还应帮助我们理解这些有时动荡或令人困惑的体验如何影响、丰富并改变儿童对是非以及对自身作为道德主体的思考。本文探讨了关于情绪与道德思维关系的研究，提出了一个旨在拓宽和深化我们对青少年情绪与道德之间联系理解的观点，并为该主题的研究设定了新议程。
