The Effect of Modeled Rationales on Moral Behavior, Moral Choice, and Level of Moral Judgment in Children

1981 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignatius J. Toner ◽  
Richard Potts
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Moral Choice

Intertemporal bargaining predicts moral behavior, even in anonymous, one-shot economic games

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-79
Author(s):  
George Ainslie
Keyword(s):  
Control Problem ◽  
Prisoner’S Dilemma ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Economic Games

AbstractTo the extent that acting fairly is in an individual's long-term interest, short-term impulses to cheat present a self-control problem. The only effective solution is to interpret the problem as a variant of repeated prisoner's dilemma, with each choice as a test case predicting future choices. Moral choice appears to be the product of a contract because it comes from self-enforcing intertemporal cooperation.

Moral behavior and moral judgment of children.

1952 ◽  
Vol 47 (2, Suppl) ◽  
pp. 463-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Refia Ugurel-Semin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior

This Isn’t the Free Will Worth Looking For

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Monroe ◽  
Garrett L. Brady ◽  
Bertram F. Malle
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Perceived Choice ◽  
The Relationship

According to previous research, threatening people’s belief in free will may undermine moral judgments and behavior. Four studies tested this claim. Study 1 used a Velten technique to threaten people’s belief in free will and found no effects on moral behavior, judgments of blame, and punishment decisions. Study 2 used six different threats to free will and failed to find effects on judgments of blame and wrongness. Study 3 found no effects on moral judgment when manipulating general free will beliefs but found strong effects when manipulating the perceived choice capacity of the judged agent. Study 4 used pretested narratives that varied agents’ apparent free will and found that perceived choice capacity mediated the relationship between free will and blame. These results suggest that people’s general beliefs about whether free will exists have no impact on moral judgments but specific judgments about the agent’s choice capacity do.

Variations in Level of Moral Judgment as a Function of Type of Dilemma and Moral Choice

1995 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale ◽  
Dennis L. Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Choice

Ease of Retrieval and the Moral Circle

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Laham
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Metacognitive Experiences

Two studies demonstrate that the ease with which moral circle exemplars come to mind influences the size of the moral circle and moral behavior. Participants who generated three exemplars had significantly larger circles than those asked to generate 15. Further, those who generated three exemplars were more likely to take a newsletter providing information on how to help circle members. These studies demonstrate the impact of metacognitive experiences on moral judgment and behavior, and highlight the importance of including metacognitive variables in any comprehensive account of moral judgment.

A Theory of Moral Choice

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Renwick Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Primate Behavior ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Wide Range

This chapter contemplates the broader themes and implications of this work and constructs a new theory of moral choice. Most existing theories designed to guide moral behavior and examine the ethical acts of others fail to adequately capture what appeared in this volume's analysis to be the critical importance of psychological factors. The chapter thus proposes a new, empirically based identity theory of moral choice. It sketches the outlines of this theory and how it was derived from empirical analysis. The chapter then notes important literature in a wide range of fields, from linguistics and cognitive science to primate behavior and neuroscience, which offers scientific underpinnings for the theory. Finally, the chapter suggests how this theory can usefully help us understand other forms of ethical political behavior.

United we stand, divided we fall: Cognition, emotion, and the moral link between them

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Manfrinati
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Dual Process Theory ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
The Brain

AbstractContrary to Greene's dual-process theory of moral judgment (Greene 2013), this commentary suggests that the network view of the brain proposed by Pessoa, in which emotion and cognition may be used as labels in the context of certain behaviors, but will not map clearly into compartmentalized pieces of the brain, could represent a better explanation of the rationale behind people's moral behavior.

scholarly journals High levels of psychopathic traits alters moral choice but not moral judgment

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Tassy ◽  
Christine Deruelle ◽  
Julien Mancini ◽  
Samuel Leistedt ◽  
Bruno Wicker
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Psychopathic Traits ◽  
Moral Choice
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