Cognitive biases can affect moral intuitions about cognitive enhancement
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Cognitive biases can affect moral intuitions about cognitive enhancement
Research into cognitive biases that impair human judgment has mostly been applied to the area of economic decision-making. Ethical decision-making has been comparatively neglected. Since ethical decisions often involve very high individual as well as collective stakes, analyzing how cognitive biases affect them can be expected to yield important results. In this theoretical article, we consider...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1662-5137
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00195