Modeling Morality in 3‐D: Decision‐Making, Judgment, and Inference

Intentionality, Morality, and Their Relationship in Human Judgment

This article explores several entanglements between human judgments of intentionality and morality (blame and praise). After proposing a model of people’s folk concept of intentionality I discuss three topics. First, considerations of a behavior’s intentionality affect people’s praise and blame of that behavior, but one study suggests that there may be an asymmetry such that blame is more affec...

Medical decisionmaking for incompetent persons: the Massachusetts substituted judgment model.

Directly Learning Tractable Models for Sequential Inference and DecisionMaking

Probabilistic graphical models such as Bayesian networks and Markov networks provide a general framework to represent multivariate distributions while exploiting conditional independence. Over the years, many approaches have been proposed to learn the structure of those networks Heckerman et al. (1995); Neapolitan (2004). However, even if the resulting network is small, inference may be intract...

Virtual Morality: Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action?

The nature of moral action versus moral judgment has been extensively debated in numerous disciplines. We introduce Virtual Reality (VR) moral paradigms examining the action individuals take in a high emotionally arousing, direct action-focused, moral scenario. In two studies involving qualitatively different populations, we found a greater endorsement of utilitarian responses-killing one in or...

Correction: Virtual Morality: Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action?

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164374.].