There is a gap between morality as experienced and morality as studied. In our personal and professional lives, moral judgments are embedded within a specific context. We know the who, what, where, and when and often can infer the why; we know the broader context of actions; and we may have a specific relationship with the actors. However, scholarly theorizing is often built on inferences from participants' responses to decontextualized, impoverished stimuli. In our quest for uncovering general psychological truths, moral psychologists have examined evaluations of poorly guarded trolleys, strangers with odd sexual proclivities, and endorsement of abstract principles. The four articles included in this section demonstrate the power of contextualizing morality. In the current article, I place these papers within a broader framework for how scholars can contextualize morality research. I then argue why contextualizing morality matters: not only do contextualized questions better reflect the nuances of reality but also contextualized judgments might be key for improving predictions of moral behavior and understanding moral change.

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语境在道德判断中的重要性。

有经验的道德与研究的道德之间存在差距。在我们的个人和职业生活中，道德判断被嵌入特定的上下文中。我们知道谁，什么，何时何地，何时何地可以经常推断出原因。我们知道行动的广泛背景；而且我们可能与演员有特定的关系。然而，学术上的理论化通常基于参与者对去情境化，贫困化的刺激的反应得出的推论。为了寻求揭示一般的心理真理，道德心理学家研究了对守卫不严的手推车，陌生人性取向怪异的陌生人以及对抽象原理的认可的评估。本节中包含的四篇文章展示了将道德环境化的力量。在当前文章中，我将这些论文放在学者可以如何将道德研究情境化的更广泛框架内。然后，我争辩说，为什么将道德环境化很重要：不仅上下文化的问题更好地反映了现实的细微差别，而且上下文化的判断可能是改善道德行为的预测和理解道德变化的关键。