1. Conscience and conflict: the moral force in personality.
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Allinsmith, Wesley and ALLINSMITH, W
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INTERPERSONAL conflict ,ETHICS ,PERSONALITY ,SOCIAL psychology ,HYPOTHESIS ,RESEARCH - Abstract
The characteristics of one's moral code determine how often and in what life situations inner conflict is aroused, influence the ways such conflict is experienced, and set limits on the techniques that can be used to resolve it. The goal of this paper is to convey the theoretical richness of the topic and to clarify some of the research implications. Therefore, only a brief outline of empirical work on the acquisition of moral needs is explained here. Details of the latter are presented elsewhere. Instead, the article describes a number of the problems that have been encountered in the development of the investigations. The paper closes with a discussion of some hypothetical interrelationships between moral standards and other facets of personality.
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- 1957
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