Handbook of moral motivation: theories, models, applications

The Handbook of Moral Motivation offers a contemporary and comprehensive appraisal of the age-old question about motivation to do the good and to prevent the bad. From a research point of view, this question remains open even though we present here a rich collection of new ideas and data. Two sources helped the editors to frame the chapters: first they looked at an overwhelmingly fruitful research tradition on motivation in general (attribution theory, performance theory, self-determination theory, etc. ) in relationship to morality. The second source refers to the tension between moral judgment (feelings, beliefs) and the real moral act in a twofold manner: (a) as a necessary duty, and, (b) as a social but not necessary bond. In addition, the handbook utilizes the latest research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, wishing to suggest by this that the answer to the posed question will likely not come from one discipline alone. Furthermore, our hope is that the implicit criticism that the narrowly constructed research approach of the recent past has contributed to closing off rather than opening up interdisciplinary lines of research becomes in this volume a strong counter discourse. The editors and authors of the handbook commend the research contained within in the hope that it will contribute to better understanding of humanity as an inherently moral species

Intro -- Handbook of Moral Motivation: Theories, Models, Applications -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- MODELS OF MORAL MOTIVATION -- INTRODUCTION -- A STORY TO BEGIN WITH: -- A MISSING FACTOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY -- 12 MODELS (OR ELEMENTS OF A RESPECTIVE MODEL) -- Model 1: A Vision as MM -- Model 2: The Moral Act as the Criterion for MM (Kohlberg & Candee) -- Model 3: Deontological and Responsibility Judgment in One as MM -- Model 4: The Component III (of the Four Component) Model of MM -- Model 5: The Self as a Regulating Power in MM -- Model 6: Reconciling Agency and Communion as MM -- Model 7: Forming Intentions and Respective Actions as MM -- Model 8: Moral Emotion Attributions as Indicators for Individual Moral Motivation -- Model 9: Justice Motives as Bridges from the Situation to MM -- Model 10: Informed Social Reflection as MM -- Model 11: Motivation by Content: Moral Motifs as MM -- Model 12: Procedural Morality and MM -- OVERRIDING MORAL MOTIVATIONAL MODEL -- REFERENCES -- AFFILIATION -- PART 1: FOUNDATIONS OF MORAL MOTIVATION -- I. "WHY BE MORAL?" A PHILOSOPHICAL TAXONOMY OF MORAL MOTIVATION -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY BE MORAL? -- The Functions of Conscience -- Moral Motives and Moral Motivation -- MORAL MOTIVATION: ITS SUMMARY AND CONSTITUTIVE CONCEPTIONS -- The Plausibility of a Real Difference -- MORAL MOTIVES: INTERNALIST AND EXTERNALIST PERSPECTIVES -- THE MORAL DOMAIN: CONTENTS AND CORE FEATURES -- TAKING STOCK -- PERSONS IN RELATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- AFFILIATION -- II. MORAL MOTIVATION AND THE FOUR COMPONENT MODEL -- INTRODUCTION -- MORAL MOTIVATION AND REST'S FOUR COMPONENT MODEL -- Moral Motivation in the Rest Model -- Research Programs Influenced by Rest's Component III -- The Professional Role Orientation Inventory (PROI) -- SUMMARY -- A Focus on Development.