Gibt es eine weibliche Moral?

Es wird die These vertreten, daß "weibliche Moral" eine Rollenmoral ist. Durch Daten über die weibliche Moralauffassung zu drei unterschiedlichen Zeitpunkten im Weiblichen Lebenslauf, in der frühkindlichen Phase, in der Adoleszenz und im Erwachsenenleben wird diese These empirisch belegt. Dabei wird vor allem der Frage nachgegangen, ob Frauen moralische Konflikte eher aus einer Fürsorglichkeitsperspektive als aus einer Gerechtigkeitsperspektive betrachten. Es wird ein Zusammenhang zwischen diffusen Rollen (z. B. in der Familie) und der weiblichen Fürsorglichkeitsmoral festgestellt. Wenn Frauen mehr Fürsorglichkeit zeigen, dann nicht, weil sie die Fähigkeit haben, Kinder zu gebären, und nicht, weil sie aufgrund einer engeren frühkindlichen Mutteridentifikation ein beziehungs- und fürsorgeorientiertes Selbst aufgebaut haben, sondern weil sie häufiger diffuse Rollen innehaben. (GF

Relaxation mechanisms of the persistent spin helix

We study the lifetime of the persistent spin helix in semiconductor quantum wells with equal Rashba- and linear Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. In order to address the temperature dependence of the relevant spin relaxation mechanisms we derive and solve semiclassical spin diffusion equations taking into account spin-dependent impurity scattering, cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions and the effect of electron-electron interactions. For the experimentally relevant regime we find that the lifetime of the persistent spin helix is mainly determined by the interplay of cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction and electron-electron interactions. We propose that even longer lifetimes can be achieved by generating a spatially damped spin profile instead of the persistent spin helix state.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure

Children’s Moral Emotion Attribution in the Happy Victimizer Task: The Role of Response Format

Previous research in the happy victimizer tradition indicated that preschool and early elementary-school children attribute positive emotions to the violator of a moral norm, whereas older children attribute negative moral emotions. Cognitive and motivational processes have been suggested as underlying this developmental shift. The current research investigated whether making the happy victimizer task less cognitively demanding, by providing children with alternative response formats, would increase children’s attribution of moral emotions and moral motivation. In Study 1, 93 4- to 7-year-old British children responded to the happy victimizer questions either in a normal condition (where they spontaneously pointed with a finger), a wait condition (where they had to wait before giving their answers), or an arrow condition (where they had to point with a paper arrow). In Study 2, 40 Spanish 4-year-old children responded in the happy victimizer task either in a normal or a wait condition. In both studies, participants’ attribution of moral emotions and moral motivation was significantly higher in the conditions with alternative response formats (wait, arrow) than in the normal condition. The role of cognitive abilities for emotion attribution in the happy victimizer task is discussed

Gewalt in der Schule

Vortrag auf der Tagung Bindung, Trauma und soziale Gewalt , 3.-5.12.2004 in Frankfurt am Main

On the Harmony of Feminist Ethics and Business Ethics

If business requires ethical solutions that are viable in the liminal landscape between concepts and corporate office, then business ethics and corporate social responsibility should offer tools that can survive the trek, that flourish in this well-traveled, but often unarticulated, environment. Indeed, feminist ethics produces, accesses, and engages such tools. However, work in BE and CSR consistently conflates feminist ethics and feminine ethics and care ethics. I offer clarification and invoke the analytic power of three feminist ethicists 'in action' whose investigations into the "grey zones" of harms; identity and representational conventions; and "asymmetrical reciprocity" harmonize with business ethics' requirements