Psychological Mechanisms of Deliberative Failure and Moral Education Prescriptions

Key Points

• This research aims to analyze the causes of deliberative failure from a moral psychology perspective and explore moral education prescriptions to overcome this issue.
• Analyzed the phenomenon of deliberative failure through moral psychology.
• Utilized social intuitionism and reasoning theory to dissect group polarization and distrust.
• Proposed educational strategies based on understanding psychological mechanisms.
• Deliberative failures are linked to the characteristics of intuition and the social function of reasoning.
• Educational tasks were identified to reconstruct conditions for smoother deliberation.
• Suggested educational designs that allow biased reasoning to undergo mutual verification.