Daytime REM sleep affects emotional experience but not decision choices in moral dilemmas [PDF]
Moral decision-making depends on the interaction between automatic emotional responses and rational cognitive control. A natural emotional regulator state seems to be sleep, in particular rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
Cellini, Nicola +3 more
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European Portuguese adaptation and validation of dilemmas used to assess moral decision-making
Objective To adapt and validate a widely used set of moral dilemmas to European Portuguese, which can be applied to assess decision-making. Moreover, the classical formulation of the dilemmas was compared with a more focused moral probe.
Carina Fernandes +8 more
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Logical and Moral Dilemmas of Postmodernism [PDF]
This is a preprint (author's original) version of the article published in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3:747-60. The final version of the article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3034037.
Lindholm, Charles
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Promoting cross-culture research on moral decision-making with standardized, culturally-equivalent dilemmas: The 4CONFiDe set [PDF]
Introduction: Moral dilemmas are a common tool in moral decision-making research. However, they are often hardly comparable across languages and cultures.
Cinzia Cecchetto +2 more
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Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements [PDF]
The psychological and neurobiological processes underlying moral judgement have been the focus of many recent empirical studies1–11. Of central interest is whether emotions play a causal role in moral judgement, and, in parallel, how emotion-related ...
Antonio Damasio +34 more
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The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment: Empirical and Philosophical Developments [PDF]
We chart how neuroscience and philosophy have together advanced our understanding of moral judgment with implications for when it goes well or poorly.
Haas, Julia +3 more
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Moral Dilemmas for Rural Contexts: Construction and Validation in a Colombian Secondary School
This paper is the result of a research project aimed at constructing and validating moral dilemmas for students of rural contexts. In the first phase the teacher compiled moral situations of interest to her students.
Fabio Enrique Barragán Santos +1 more
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Judging the morality of utilitarian actions: How poor utilitarian accessibility makes judges irrational. [PDF]
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people's lives to save many others? Research on moral dilemmas in psychology, experimental philosophy, and neuropsychology has shown that respondents judge utilitarian personal moral actions (footbridge ...
Alzahrani, S. +4 more
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Moral reasoning and homosexuality: the acceptability of arguments about lesbian and gay issues [PDF]
In the political arena, lesbian and gay issues have typically been contested on grounds of human rights, but with variable success. Using a moral developmental framework, the purpose of this study was to explore preferences for different types of moral ...
ALEIXO P.A. +19 more
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Decisions in moral dilemmas: The influence of subjective beliefs in outcome probabilities [PDF]
Previous studies have found that the proportions of people who endorsed utilitarian decisions varied across different variants of the trolley dilemma.
Yiyun Shou, Fei Song
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