Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

What are the moral emotions, their functions, how they change and their experiences, and their association to moral actions and moral judgment are among the most important issues for moral psychology researches and moral education. The present research addresses the conceptual and theoretical exploration into the language composition so-called "the regulation of moral emotion", and the explication of the scope and the conceptual meaning by focusing on implications, theories and researches on moral emotions on the one hand, and emotional regulation on the other hand. Documentary research method and reflective evaluation was used towards conceptualization and illumination of moral emotion regulation. These steps included selecting a topic, setting goals and questions, explorative investigations and literature review, choosing a theoretical approach, collecting resources and techniques for reviewing resources, processing, writing, and reporting the research. Results indicated that based on analyzes and existing theoretical and research implications, that this concept has the meaning and necessary logic and It can integrate the research in the field of moral psychology through integrating the moral specific domain of emotion regulation process and draws new horizons for future researches and practices.