Groups as moral anchors

The Effect of Probability Anchors in Moral Decision Making

The role of probabilistic reasoning in moral decision making has seen relatively little research, despite having potentially profound consequences for our models of moral cognition. To rectify this, two experiments were undertaken in which participants were presented with moral dilemmas with additional information designed to anchor judgements about how likely the dilemma’s outcomes were. It wa...

Prominent words as anchors for TRP projection

The effect of the position of the last accented word on the projection of TRPs was investigated with two RT experiments. Subjects were asked to respond with minimal responses to prerecorded dialogs and impoverished versions of these dialogs, containing either only intonation and pause information,hummed stimuli, or no periodic component at all, whispered stimuli. The distribution of these elici...

Moral Conflicts between Groups of Agents

Two groups of agents, G1 and G2, face a moral conflict if G1 has a moral obligation and G2 has a moral obligation, such that these obligations cannot both be fulfilled. We study moral conflicts using a multi-agent deontic logic devised to represent reasoning about sentences like ‘In the interest of group F of agents, group G of agents ought to see to it that φ’. We provide a formal language and...

Caregiving as moral experience.

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Moral Sensitivity as a Precondition of Moral Distress.