Moral emotions, such as shame, guilt, pride, and others, are like barometers we use to navigate our social environments. Cognitive, social, personality, and physiological components combine to characterize a specific emotion that will go on to play a fundamental role in the organization of knowledge and social understanding, as well as in a person's psychological well-being, since his or her earliest years of life. Emotions are an innate tendency of human beings to allow internal and subjective states, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to be communicated and shared with the outside world. They are a communicative tool that provides the most important opportunity for all living beings to connect with others and initiate the process of social understanding that fuels interpersonal relationships.
This Research Topic aims to promote a scientific debate about the nature of moral emotions and their complexity examining their connection with other cognitive, social, personality, and neuropsychological components that characterized humans since the first years of life.
We encourage submitting empirical or review papers that investigate moral emotions in relation to other components from a neurobehavioral or social point of view. Research contributions can present results from data collected in either typically or atypical samples belonging to the whole cycle of life.
Keywords:
Emotion, Social, Personality, Cognitive, Neuroscience, Neurobehavioral, Development
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Moral emotions, such as shame, guilt, pride, and others, are like barometers we use to navigate our social environments. Cognitive, social, personality, and physiological components combine to characterize a specific emotion that will go on to play a fundamental role in the organization of knowledge and social understanding, as well as in a person's psychological well-being, since his or her earliest years of life. Emotions are an innate tendency of human beings to allow internal and subjective states, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to be communicated and shared with the outside world. They are a communicative tool that provides the most important opportunity for all living beings to connect with others and initiate the process of social understanding that fuels interpersonal relationships.
This Research Topic aims to promote a scientific debate about the nature of moral emotions and their complexity examining their connection with other cognitive, social, personality, and neuropsychological components that characterized humans since the first years of life.
We encourage submitting empirical or review papers that investigate moral emotions in relation to other components from a neurobehavioral or social point of view. Research contributions can present results from data collected in either typically or atypical samples belonging to the whole cycle of life.
Keywords:
Emotion, Social, Personality, Cognitive, Neuroscience, Neurobehavioral, Development
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.