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Ethics, Uncertainty, and Macroeconomics

open access: yesAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017
In this article, I focus on the difference in moral judgment of macroeconomic interventions between the deterministic world of a thought experiment and the uncertain reality.
Mariusz Maziarz
doaj   +1 more source

Qualified but Unprepared: The Readiness Paradox in Early Career Mental Health Nurses—A Descriptive Qualitative Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Volume 35, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Mental health issues such as anxiety and depression are reported at higher rates in undergraduate nursing students than in the general population, highlighting the potential value of enhanced wellbeing supports for recent graduates. Evidence suggests that supportive strategies, including clinical supervision and structured wellbeing programmes,
Louise Alexander   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Trolley Problem in Virtual Reality

open access: yes, 2019
Would people react to the Trolley problem differently based on the medium? Immersive Virtual Reality Driving Simulator was used to examine participants respond to the trolley problem in a realistic and controlled simulated ...
Guirguis, Ariane   +4 more
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IRC motorised trolley [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Trolley has been utilized by library staff to sort and place books back to their respected book shelves. The act of pushing this heavy trolley has created some health issues especially to those with back pain muscle problem or to pregnant staff or to ...
M Ariff, Fimaris   +4 more
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Crime, Punishment, and Expectations

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 270-286, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Crime doesn't pay. Or does it? We study the role of expectations regarding sanctions and the likelihood of detection on whether people obey the law. We examine how expectations influence whether people obey the law and conduct simulations of various enforcement counterfactuals.
Mohammad H. Rahmati, David A. Hyman
wiley   +1 more source

Trolled by the Trolley Problem

open access: yesProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
Automated vehicles have to make decisions, such as driving maneuvers or rerouting, based on environment data and decision algorithms. There is a question whether ethical aspects should be considered in these algorithms. When all available decisions within a situation have fatal consequences, this leads to a dilemma.
Alexander G. Mirnig   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Potential Surprise Theory as a Practical and Theoretical Cornerstone of the Uncertainty‐Based Perspective on Risk

open access: yesRisk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT From all the knowledge that would emerge as relevant to it over infinite time, a risk analysis must be based on the cross‐section available at its undertaking. This creates a knowledge gap, which can lead to surprises. To address a similar problem in economic decision‐making, G. L. S. Shackle developed potential surprise theory (PST).
James Derbyshire
wiley   +1 more source

Causal Attributions and the Trolley Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, we consider two competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causal attributions are responsive to normative details, such as whether an agent’s action violated an injunctive norm—the counterfactual view and the ...
Livengood, Jonathan, Sytsma, Justin
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Event-related potentials reveal incongruent behavior of autonomous vehicles in the moral machine dilemma

open access: yesScientific Reports
We investigated event-related potentials (ERPs) in the context of autonomous vehicles (AVs)—specifically in ambiguous, morally challenging traffic situations.
Maren A. K. Bertheau   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Infrastructure Trolley Problem: Positioning Safe‐to‐fail Infrastructure for Climate Change Adaptation

open access: yesEarth's Future, 2019
Motivated by the need for cities to prepare for and adapt to climate change, we advance the paradigm of safe‐to‐fail by focusing on the decision dilemmas and the consideration of infrastructure failure consequences in developing infrastructure ...
Yeowon Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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