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  2. Evolution of morality - Wikipedia

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    Morality may have evolved in these bands of 100 to 200 people as a means of social control, conflict resolution and group solidarity. This numerical limit is theorized to be hard coded in our genes since even modern humans have difficulty maintaining stable social relationships with more than 100–200 people .

  3. Moral development - Wikipedia

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    Moral affect is “emotion related to matters of right and wrong”. Such emotion includes shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride; shame is correlated with the disapproval by one's peers, guilt is correlated with the disapproval of oneself, embarrassment is feeling disgraced while in the public eye, and pride is a feeling generally brought about by a positive opinion of oneself when admired by ...

  4. Moral foundations theory - Wikipedia

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    The usefulness of moral foundations theory as an explanation for political ideology has been contested on the grounds that moral foundations are less heritable than political ideology, [47] and longitudinal data suggest that political ideology predicts subsequent endorsement of moral foundations, but moral foundations endorsement does not ...

  5. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia

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    Kohlberg has speculated that many people may never reach this level of abstract moral reasoning. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In Stage five (social contract driven), the world is viewed as holding different opinions, rights, and values.

  6. Evolutionary origin of religion - Wikipedia

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    Morality may have evolved in these bands of 100 to 200 people as a means of social control, conflict resolution and group solidarity. According to Dr. de Waal, human morality has two extra levels of sophistication that are not found in primate societies.

  7. Evolutionary ethics - Wikipedia

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    [9] He defined what he called "moral systems" as societal (not evolved) responses to conflicts of interest. [10] Among other examples, he cited societal rules or laws imposing monogamy. The behavioral conflicts that are addressed by such rules have their evolutionary origin in the (genetic) sexual conflict between men and women. [7]

  8. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many school reform efforts of the mid-twentieth century were driven by local school districts with the support of private philanthropy. For example, the All-Day Neighborhood Schools program in New York City, which provided additional teachers, after-school activities, social workers, and other improvements, operated from 1936 to 1971 as a ...

  9. Natural morality - Wikipedia

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    Natural morality refers to morality that is based on human nature, rather than acquired from societal norms or religious teachings. Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution is central to many modern conceptions of natural morality, but the concept goes back at least to naturalism .