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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Moral Decision-making"”.
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Uncertainty and utilitarian moral decision-making
… psychology and neuroscience has explored moral utilitarian research questions, decision mechanisms and behaviour. For example, in the question ‘Is it appropriate for you to sacrifice one workman in order to save five workmen?’ moral utilitarian theorists (consequentialism) would answer …
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CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC PROCESSES IN MORAL DECISION-MAKING
A popular dual-process theory of moral decision-making, that put forward by Joshua Greene, proposes that deontological judgments are produced by affective intuitions while consequentialist judgements usually are the product of cognitive deliberation. Greene and colleagues (2001, 2004) have backed …
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Pain and Principle: The Effects of Nociceptive Stimuli on Moral Decision Making
… task and as a more integrated reasoning process, moral decision making appears susceptible to interference by nociceptive stimuli. Differentiation, however, between conflicting occupation of WM resources and the influence of pain-induced autonomic activation as potential pathways of interaction …
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The Possibility of Normative Moral Decision Making Artificial Intelligence and its Effects on the Practical Nature of Morality.
… that is designed to support professionals in moral decision making. These types of AI are to predict our moral beliefs or judgments in specified choice situations. This paper explores the potential of such AI-technologies to be normative for its users and how that may affect the practice of …
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The effects of character education on the moral decision making of a selected sample of high school students
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if a program of character education implemented in a public high school over a 6 month period would lead to measurable changes in value judgments as measured by the Student Survey of Social and Emotional Learning. The instrument contained 21 items …
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Press trigger for morality: an exploration into the role of moral development, moral decision-making and video game play.
… playing video games, research into the role of morality and video games needed to be investigated. Some video games contain controversial, potentially morally questionable content, and numerous video games involve moral narratives or require the player to make moral decisions. Thus, both these …
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Moral and ethical decision making of physicians and attorneys: The influence of faith across their career lifespans
A review of the ethical and moral development literature suggested that specific factors, such as age, education, faith, and well-being may be determinants of moral development. The literature also showed that the ethical and moral judgment of professionals has rarely been examined. Nor has the …
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The ethics of care or the ethics of justice? : a middle way
… from both. A more sufficient framework for moral decision-making will be proposed and its validity assessed. Part One investigates the ethics of care, beginning with a critical analysis of Carol Gilligan's approach to the ethics of care and justice, leading to an exploration of the nature …
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An exploration of moral orientation, gender and the nature of the dilemma in moral reasoning of community college presidents
Moral development as a cognitive process was first presented by Piaget, and then by Kohlberg, who brought together the philosophical and psychological views of morality into a theory of justice reasoning. Some twenty years later, Gilligan, by including women's thinking in theory building, …
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Emergency Contraception, Catholic Hospitals, and Rape
… acknowledged the difficulty of practical moral decision making in cases where there is an absence of logical certainty, and the provision of EC to rape victims is such a case. While most Catholics are not aware of the moral method of probabilism, it is a legitimate system of moral …
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Morality of offenders : investigating morality of individuals who commit crime
Morality is often difficult to define due to its abstract nature, relating to both internal beliefsand morals that an individual possess as well as external factors and circumstances that arisewhich impact on an individual’s moral decision-making ability. Prior research suggests thereis a …
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A comparison of moral reasoning and moral orientation of American and Turkish university students.
… male and female university students in terms of moral orientation (justice and care) and Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning to examine the influence of culture and gender on moral development. A total of 324 undergraduate students between the ages of 18 and 46 are administered the Defining …
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Adolescent Perception of Moral Communication Sources
This thesis explores effectiveness of moral communication sources in intergenerational transmission of morality. Survey data from 362 adolescent participants are used to measure adolescent perception in source awareness, source importance and source value in both mediated and non-mediated moral …
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Nuclear Armament/Disarmament as a Topic in Decision-Making Models in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms
… armament/disarmament issue as a topic for the moral decision-making model in secondary social studies curriculums and to establish guidelines for its inclusion in future lessons. A review of the relevant literature provided the basis for a questionnaire mailed to four hundred, randomly selected …
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The effectiveness of teaching moral development on the ethical decisions of first and second grade children
… education curriculum can lead to improvement in moral and ethical decisions. Participants were administered two forms of an assessment over a six-month period. The first assessment was executed in September of 2001. The participants were then introduced to one supplementary term per month. They …
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The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience
… insufficient attention to how vision shapes the moral life. Too much focus is given to moral decision-making and action, while too little focus is given to the way vision and patterns of attentiveness ground our capacities for genuine morally responsible action. Therefore, in this study, I draw …
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Do Dilemmas on a Moral Judgment task Elicit Feeling States Known to Affect Information Processing?
The role of emotion in the process of moral decision making has become of interest in recent years (Haidt, 2001). At the same time, emotion researchers are beginning to understand that different basic emotion states (i.e., joy, anger) lead to different information processing styles (Aspinwall, …
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Raising Robots to be Good: a practical interpretation, framework and methodology for developing moral machines
… the capacity for them to make their own ethical decisions. These recent attempts have raised a significant amount of attention, largely owing to their failure. Where Machine Ethics can be described as the pursuit to create machines with the capacity to make moral decisions, this thesis carries …
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The roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making
… not been modelled adequately as key factors in moral decision-making in the study of violence. This research will test the different roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making using a Situational Action Theory perspective. Qualitative in-depth interviews were carried out with …
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Student nurse moral development:a case study of second year students undertaking enrolled nurse training in KwaZulu-Natal
… primary aim of the study was to investigate the moral development of second year pupil nurses undergoing training in institutions in KwaZulu Natal. Secondary to a generic exploration, the study's secondary focus was on determining the extent to which moral development among these students was …
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