Undergraduate Course: Moral Judgment and Behaviour (PSYL10100)

Course Outline
School	School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course will examine major theoretical models of moral judgement and values. We will also study real world examples of moral behaviour, including corporate corruption, mass atrocity, and charitable giving.
Course description	In this course you will learn about competing models of moral judgement and the evidence that supports them. This ranges from arguments about the development of moral judgement from childhood to social psychological, neuroscientific, and computational models of adult moral judgement. You will then apply these models, to the extent they are applicable, to discussions and analyses of corporate corruption, altruistic behaviour/charitable giving, and mass atrocity/genocide.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Psychology Methodology 1 (PSYL10034) AND Psychology Methodology 2 (PSYL10035)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 51
Course Start	Block 1 (Sem 1)
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 55 %, Coursework 35 %, Practical Exam 10 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	10% discussion participation: Class discussions in which students will either lead or moderate the evaluation of assigned papers (for those with exemptions, a short written response will be substituted). 55% essay (maximum length 3000 words). A take home piece of coursework that analyses a contemporary, 'real world' moral issue through the lens of one (or more) of the models/theories we cover in class. 35% reading response (600 to maximum length 700 words): Four 1-2 page reading responses analysing assigned papers and reacting to highlighted issues.
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			1:30

Academic year 2015/16, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)		Quota: 10
Course Start	Block 1 (Sem 1)
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	10% discussion participation: Class discussions in which students will either lead or moderate the evaluation of assigned papers (for those with exemptions, a short written response will be substituted). 55% essay (maximum length 3000 words). A take home piece of coursework that analyses a contemporary, 'real world' moral issue through the lens of one (or more) of the models/theories we cover in class. 35% reading response (600 to maximum length 700 words): Four 1-2 page reading responses analysing assigned papers and reacting to highlighted issues.
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Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to identify key streams of research in the study of moral behaviour and judgment, discuss empirical findings that test key models of explanation in these areas, and identify factors that play a role in how human beings perceive and react to moral situations.

Reading List
Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108, 814-834. Greene, J.D., Nystrom, L.E., Engell, A.D., Darley, J.M., & Cohen, J.D. (2004). The neural bases of cognitive control in moral judgment. Neuron, 44, 389-400. Wakslak, C.J., Jost, J.T., Tyler, T.R., & Chen, E.S. (2007). Moral outrage mediates the dampening effect of system justification on support for redistributive social policies. Psychological Science, 18, 267-274. Greenberg, J. (1987). A taxonomy of organizational justice theories. The Academy of Management Review, 12, 9-22. Mintz, M. (1987). At any cost: Corporate greed, women, and the Dalkon shield. In Corporate Violence: Injury and Death for Profit. Stuart L. Hills (Ed.). Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield.