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Bridging moral cognition and moral action: A critical review of the literature.

Augusto Blasi

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Discusses conceptual and empirical issues concerning the relations between moral reasoning and moral action. Two opposite views of the relations between moral cognition and moral action are described; one is an essentially irrational view that emphasizes need and action tendencies, while the other c

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Discusses conceptual and empirical issues concerning the relations between moral reasoning and moral action. Two opposite views of the relations between moral cognition and moral action are described; one is an essentially irrational view that emphasizes need and action tendencies, while the other c

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Discusses conceptual and empirical issues concerning the relations between moral reasoning and moral action. Two opposite views of the relations between moral cognition and moral action are described; one is an essentially irrational view that emphasizes need and action tendencies, while the other c

Key concepts: Bridging (networking), Cognition, Moral disengagement, Psychology, Action (physics), Social cognitive theory of morality, Moral psychology, Moral reasoning

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