ABSTRACT

In recent years, research on moral cognition has witnessed tremendous growth. To give only one example, research on morality increased eightfold in the pages of the journal Cognition during the last decade, arguably the most impressive topic shift in the history of the journal (Cohen Priva & Austerweil, 2015; Greene, 2015). This rapid growth is not without consequences for the psychology of reasoning. Indeed, new-wave moral psychology creates both a challenge and an opportunity for the psychology of reasoning. The challenge is to establish the relevance of reasoning research in the context of moral cognition, whose theories tend to make token mentions of reasoning, or to ignore current developments in reasoning research. The opportunity is to leverage the current impact of moral judgement research into reaching a new and vast audience.