Department of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, United States.
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
Adv Child Dev Behav. 2020;58:63-93. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2020.01.003. Epub 2020 Feb 5.
In this chapter we present the perspective that social groups serve as moral boundaries. Social groups establish the bounds within which people hold moral obligations toward one another. The belief that people are morally obligated toward fellow social group members, but not toward members of other groups, is an early-emerging feature of human cognition, arising out of domain-general processes in conceptual development. We review evidence that supports this account from the adult and child moral cognition literature, and we describe the developmental processes by which people come to view social groups as shaping moral obligation. We conclude with suggestions about how this account can inform the study of social cognitive development more broadly, as well as how it can be used to promote positive moral socialization.
在本章中，我们提出了这样一种观点，即社会群体充当了道德的界限。社会群体确定了人们彼此之间承担道德义务的范围。人们对同社会群体成员有道德义务，而对其他群体的成员则没有这种信念，是人类认知的一个早期特征，它源自于概念发展中的一般领域过程。我们回顾了来自成人和儿童道德认知文献的证据，这些证据支持了这一说法，并描述了人们如何将社会群体视为塑造道德义务的发展过程。最后，我们提出了一些建议，说明这一说法如何更广泛地为社会认知发展的研究提供信息，以及如何利用它来促进积极的道德社会化。
