Moral judgments and impressions

•Moral judgments are driven by both intuition and deliberation.•Morality perceptions are crucial in forming global impressions of others.•Moral judgments are studied by psychology in increasingly realistic situations.

Moral psychology is booming and recent years brought a large body of research on moral judgments and impressions. We review up to date results about this important constituent of human morality focusing mainly on: (1) how deontology vs. utilitarianism drives moral judgments, (2) what is the role of intuition and deliberation in moral judgments, (3) how and why morality influences impressions of persons, and (4) how people perceive moral character. We also highlight some limitations of previous research and show how these limitations are being overcome recently.