Stability of Moral Behavior in Situational Variability

초록

While admitting the potential role of personality traits that influence an individual’s moral behavior, situationists in psychology deny the functioning of moral traits, claiming that personality traits are stimulated by situational power. To understand moral behavior more clearly, however, traits of some people who make different choices in the same situation should be noticd. Individuals can choose or avoid a specific situation according to their personality traits, which affects their moral behavior. Individuals behave in a variety of ways in a given dimension of behavior, but the center of their behaviors is still very stable over a long term. Therefore, to understand consistency, stability, and individual differences in moral behavior, an integrated approach that focuses on the interaction between situational power and moral traits should be made much of.

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