#585 Philippe Rochat Moral Acrobatics: How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity by Thinking in Black and White

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RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 1st 2021.
Dr. Philippe Rochat is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. What is the nature and origins of human self-conscious psychology? Driven by this question, the main focus of Dr. Rochat's research in the Emory Infant and Child Lab is on the early sense of self, emerging self-concept, the development of social cognition and relatedness, and the emergence of a moral sense during the preschool years in children from all over the world growing up in different cultural environments and socio-economic circumstances. Dr. Rochat has published five books, including Moral Acrobatics: How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity by Thinking in Black and White.

In this episode, we focus on Moral Acrobatics. The topics covered include: black-and-white thinking; three forces: in-group favoritism (parochialism), the basic need to affiliate; the struggle for recognition (reputation); essentialism; the fundamental attribution error; ethical ambiguity and how we avoid it; the developmental psychology of lying; legal systems; individual differences in moral acrobatics; and if it is possible for us to become better people by learning about moral development.

Time Links:
00:00 Intro
00:31 Black-and-white thinking
02:09 Three forces: in-group favoritism (parochialism), the basic need to affiliate; the struggle for recognition (reputation)
10:56 Ethical ambiguity, and how we avoid it
16:52 Do people ever think they are in the wrong?
19:04 The development of lying
24:31 How do we develop our morals?
29:04 Legal systems
32:47 Individual differences in moral acrobatics
38:14 Moral realism
42:19 Can we become better people by learning about moral development?
46:41 Follow Dr. Rochat’s work!
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