Abstract
Is moral judgment universal or culture-relative? Is it dominated by emotional or cognitive processes? In order to address these perplexing questions, the authors propose a dual-process model and argue that: (1) moral judgment involves two kinds of psychological processes (an automatic process, which is sub-conscious and fast, and an elaborative process, which is conscious and time-consuming); (2) both processes contain emotional and cognitive components; and (3) moral judgment psychological processes are influenced by both biological-evolutional and social-cultural factors. Prospects for further studies of indigenous moral psychology and epistemological issues are discussed.