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The concept of universalism is prevalent across the social, political, and physical sciences. In the field of psychology, universalism conventionally refers to the idea that the range of human experience – from basic needs and psychological processes to core values – is intrinsic and therefore similar across humans and cultures.
Ethics is at the core of every discipline. The Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists speaks to the common moral framework that guides and inspires psychologists worldwide toward the highest ethical ideals in their professional and scientific work.
desire to punish or compete, play a distorting role in generating -ethical judgments (see, e.g., meta Mackie, 1977, p. 43; Fisher et al., 2016; Rose & Nichols, forthcoming). In this paper, we want to pursue a more optimistic possibility, that ’s beliefs about relativism and universalism are partly people
In this paper, we give an overview of recent arguments and new empirical findings related to this moral universalism-relativism debate. In the first section, below, we discuss moral universalism and analytic philosophers’ arguments in favor of it. In the second section we discuss moral relativism and philosophers’ arguments against it.
Western history of modern-day ethical principles and comparing existing codes of ethics for psychologists from around the world to identify similarities in the ethical principles and values that underpin them.
1 kwi 2019 · Recent work in folk metaethics finds a correlation between perceived consensus about a moral claim and meta‐ethical judgments about whether the claim is universally or only relatively true. We...
Psychological universals, or core mental attributes shared by humans everywhere, are a foundational postulate of psychology, yet explicit analysis of how to identify such universals is lacking.
