A New Book Compiled by Assoc. Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz

A book titled “Ahlakın Yeni Soyağacı – Psikolojik ve Evrimsel Bir Bakış” (The New Family Tree of Morality – A Psychological and Evolutionary Point of View) complied by Assoc. Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz from KHAS Psychology Department was published by Koç University Press. Among the authors are Prof. Dr. Adil Sarıbay, Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Harma and Dr. Burak Doğruyol, who are also faculty members at our university, in addition to Dr. Yılmaz.

Moral Psychology has a deep-rooted history, but the evolutionary approaches to that have been recently revealed comparatively. There have been many theoretical and methodological changes in the last twenty years in this field. The book complied from the articles from fifteen authors of the four generations studying moral psychology in Turkey, deals with this subject from a historical perspective, and summarizes the current theoretical approaches. Composed of twelve studies covering various discussions about the biological and cultural determinants of morality, this study suggests that one should focus on environmental and biological factors to get the whole picture of morality. Discussing the shaping and processing of human morality, human relationships, decision-making processes, economic behaviors, and even the reflections thereof in different fields, such as climate crisis, this compilation successfully offers current studies and discussions.