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Moral distress and moral competences in midwifery: A latent variable approach

Journal of Health Psychology, 2018
Like other health professionals, midwives need moral competences in order to cope effectively with ethical issues and to prevent moral distress and negative consequences such as fatigue or impaired quality of care. In this study, we developed and conducted a survey with 280 midwives or midwifery students assessing the burden associated with ethical ...
Stephan Oelhafen, Eva Cignacco
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The morality of competence

2018
Introduction: Competence requires morality Most clients think of good lawyers as people who are skilled and therefore effective in achieving outcomes. These ideas reflect the common notion that technical ‘competency’ is an important quality which lawyers ought to have.
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Moral Competence, Moral Blame, and Protest

The Journal of Ethics, 2011
I argue that wrongdoers may be open to moral blame even if they lacked the capacity to respond to the moral considerations that counted against their behavior. My initial argument turns on the suggestion that even an agent who cannot respond to specific moral considerations may still guide her behavior by her judgments about reasons.
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The Moral-Conventional Distinction in Mature Moral Competence

Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2010
Abstract Developmental psychologists have long argued that the capacity to distinguish moral and conventional transgressions develops across cultures and emerges early in life. Children reliably treat moral transgressions as more wrong, more punishable, independent of structures of authority, and universally applicable.
Bryce Huebner, James Lee, Marc Hauser
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The HERA approach to morally competent robots

2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017
To address the requirement for autonomous moral decision making, we introduce a software library for modeling hybrid ethical reasoning agents (short: HERA). The goal of the HERA project is to provide theoretically well-founded and practically usable logic-based machine ethics tools for implementation in robots.
Felix Lindner 0001, Martin Mose Bentzen, Bernhard Nebel   +2 more
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Studies on Moral Competence

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moral heuristics or moral competence? reflections on sunstein

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005
by focusing on mistaken judgments, sunstein provides a theory of performance errors without a theory of moral competence. additionally, sunstein's objections to thought experiments like the footbridge and trolley problems are unsound. exotic and unfamiliar stimuli are used in theory construction throughout the cognitive sciences, and these problems ...
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The Moral Reputation Correlates of Competence Reputation

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1963
(1963). The Moral Reputation Correlates of Competence Reputation. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 283-288.
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Moral Competence in Robots?

2014
I start with the premise that any social robot must have moral competence. I offer a framework for what moral competence is and sketch the prospects for it to be developed in artificial agents. After considering three proposals for requirements of “moral agency” I propose instead to examine moral competence as a broader set of ...
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Moral Competencies of the Manager

2012
Chester Irving Barnard, an American business executive and pioneer in management theory, was one of the fi rst in pointing out the importance of leadership in organizations. He put special emphasis on cooperation and on the responsibility of the executive to promote this.
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