Of course, "reason" and "action" cannot be easily disentangled; indeed, the situational variability of cognitive processes helps explain the observed behavioral variability in moral behavior.
Understanding how serotonin modulates moral behavior thus requires precise behavioral tools for measuring aspects of moral behavior, combined with targeted pharmacological tools for manipulating serotonin in the brain.
Moral behaviors may be learned as part of an open behavioral program.
It addresses morality on three levels: moral outcomes (behavioral genetics), moral motivation or intent (psychology and neurology), and moral systems (sociality).
For their part, moral philosophers will hasten to point out that they are not primarily in the business of "explaining moral behavior" in the sense of causally explaining the origins of our capacity for moral judgment or of various associated emotional and behavioral dispositions.
The filmmakers have set themselves an enormous task, trying to sort out the moral and behavioral conundrums that gave rise to the Third Reich.
Beyond the awful human costs of the Couch family's hubris, the de facto treatment of Couch as some kind of moral and behavioral outlier works to obscure the pronounced affinities he shares with other malefactors of great wealth.
Empathy is a complex capacity that includes cognitive, emotional, moral and behavioral processes, not only to feel another's pain but to imagine how one could alleviate his suffering and take rational steps to help that person.
Fathers were responsible for sociocultural reproduction, taking over the training in children's moral and behavioral requirements as well as intellectual skills.
The research on abortion, however, finds that abortion is an outcome produced by clusters of social, political, psychological, physiological, moral and behavioral factors.
