A recent article my co-authors and I published in Personality and Social Psychology Review has been viewed and downloaded a total of 11,644 since it first appeared online, making it one of the most read articles in the journal in the past 6 months.
The abstract appears below and the article can be downloaded HERE
The Psychology of Morality: A Review and Analysis of Empirical Studies Published From 1940 Through 2017
Naomi Ellemers, Jojanneke van der Toorn, Yavor Paunov, & Thed van Leeuwen
We review empirical research on (social) psychology of morality to identify which issues and relations are well documented by existing data and which areas of inquiry are in need of further empirical evidence. An electronic literature search yielded a total of 1,278 relevant research articles published from 1940 through 2017. These were subjected to expert content analysis and standardized bibliometric analysis to classify research questions and relate these to (trends in) empirical approaches that characterize research on morality. We categorize the research questions addressed in this literature into five different themes and consider how empirical approaches within each of these themes have addressed psychological antecedents and implications of moral behavior. We conclude that some key features of theoretical questions relating to human morality are not systematically captured in empirical research and are in need of further investigation.
