Exemplars and nudges: Combining two strategies for moral education

Teaching strategies for moral education: a review

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Rumi's epistemology and implications for moral education

From its very beginnings, man has always been a curious and inquisitive creature looking for goals to reach him, but what a destination is, where it is, and who it is has been an important issue that makes people more curious and purposeful. He believes that the structure of human beliefs is shaped by his moral characteristics and that the moral contaminants of human knowledge are distorted. Th...

Attainable and Relevant Moral Exemplars Are More Effective than Extraordinary Exemplars in Promoting Voluntary Service Engagement

The present study aimed to develop effective moral educational interventions based on social psychology by using stories of moral exemplars. We tested whether motivation to engage in voluntary service as a form of moral behavior was better promoted by attainable and relevant exemplars or by unattainable and irrelevant exemplars. First, experiment 1, conducted in a lab, showed that stories of at...

Combining Models and Exemplars for Face Recognition: An Illuminating Example

We propose a modeland exemplar-based approach for face recognition. This problem has been previously tackled using either models or exemplars, with limited success. Our idea uses models to synthesize many more exemplars, which are then used in the learning stage of a face recognition system. To demonstrate this, we develop a statistical shape-fromshading model to recover face shape from a singl...

Implications of moral psychology for medical education