Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2020 Mar;15(2):231-249. doi: 10.1177/1745691619885872. Epub 2020 Jan 31.
What is judged as morally right and wrong in war? I argue that despite many decades of research on moral psychology and the psychology of intergroup conflict, social psychology does not yet have a good answer to this question. However, it is a question of great importance because its answer has implications for decision-making in war, public policy, and international law. I therefore suggest a new way for psychology researchers to study the morality of war that combines the strengths of philosophical just-war theory with experimental techniques and theories developed for the psychological study of morality more generally. This novel approach has already begun to elucidate the moral judgments third-party observers make in war, and I demonstrate that these early findings have important implications for moral psychology, just-war theory, and the understanding of the morality of war.
战争中的道德对错如何判断？我认为，尽管道德心理学和群体间冲突心理学已经研究了几十年，但社会心理学仍然没有一个很好的答案。然而，这个问题非常重要，因为它的答案对战时决策、公共政策和国际法都有影响。因此，我建议心理学家采用一种新的方法来研究战争的道德性，这种方法将哲学上的正义战争理论的优势与实验技术和更普遍的道德心理学理论相结合。这种新方法已经开始阐明第三方观察者在战争中的道德判断，我证明这些早期发现对道德心理学、正义战争理论和对战争道德的理解都有重要的影响。
