ABSTRACT
Scholars, researchers, scientists, and theorists spend much of their time, obtain their livelihood, and define themselves professionally by, to put it colloquially, trying to figure things out. They examine particular sets of phenomena and attempt to provide the most coherent, tight, and logical explanations they can. In doing so, they gather data and other forms of information to help them understand the phenomena. In turn, they examine data with at least two principles in mind: to provide support for their explanations and to alter their explanations when not supported by data. Those who engage in these activities are human beings who, in the field of psychology, study human beings and attempt to explain how human beings (and in many cases, other animals) function. When those human beings are psychologists engaged in study and explanations of morality, they, of course, are attempting to explain how humans (and nonhumans) function in a realm we label morality. Furthermore, such psychologists often attempt to define the realm of morality and to characterize its features (they might do so themselves or rely on moral philosophers).
