Virtue, personality, and social relations: Self-control as the moral muscle
Virtue, personality, and social relations: Self-control as the moral muscle
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-6494.00086
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发表时间：
1999-12-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Exline, JJ
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作者：
Baumeister, RF;Exline, JJ
道德是一套规则，使人们能够和谐地生活在一起，美德涉及内化这些规则。尽管美德依赖于为了群体或集体的利益而克服自私或反社会的冲动，但自我控制可以说是主要的美德。我们从自我控制理论的角度分析了罪恶、罪恶和美德。最近的研究结果表明，自我控制涉及一些有限的资源的支出，并建议道德肌肉的类比作为一个适当的方式来概念化人格中的美德。内疚感通过将人际义务提升到个人私利之上，从而促进了良性的自我控制。现代西方社会的几个特点使得美德和自我控制特别难以实现。
Morality is a set of rules that enable people to live together in harmony, and virtue involves internalizing those rules. Insofar as virtue depends on overcoming selfish or antisocial impulses for the sake of what is best for the group or collective, self-control can be said to be the master virtue. We analyze vice, sin, and Virtue from the perspective of self-control theory. Recent research findings indicate that self-control involves expenditure of some limited resource and suggest the analogy of a moral muscle as an appropriate way to conceptualize virtue in personality. Guilt fosters virtuous self-control by elevating interpersonal obligations over personal, selfish interests. Several features of modern Western society make virtue and self-control especially difficult to achieve.