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This review synthesizes research on power and morality. Although power is typically viewed as undermining the roots of moral behavior, this paper proposes power can either morally corrupt or morally elevate individuals depending on two crucial factors. First, power can trigger behavioral disinhibition. As a consequence, power fosters corruption by disinhibiting people's immoral desires, but can also encourage ethical behavior by amplifying moral impulses. Second, power leads people to focus more on their self, relative to others. Thus, those with power are more likely to engage in self-beneficial behavior, but those who lack power are more prone to engage in other-beneficial unethical behavior. Overall, we offer predictions as to when and why power will yield more or less moral behavior.

Moral judgments and decisions are accompanied by specific patterns of attention, which can be indicative for the underlying cognitive processes. In this opinion paper we address methodological, theoretical and empirical issues concerning the relation between attention and morality. First, we discuss potential advantages of using measures of attention based on eye-tracking to investigate processes of judgment and choice in general and concerning morality in particular. Second, we review empirical studies and identify regularities concerning attention patterns in moral judgments. Third, taking into account these findings we provide suggestions for the development and testing of more detailed and better formalized cognitive process models for moral behavior based on interactive activation and parallel constraint satisfaction mechanisms. Previous article in issue