Employing and modifying the model by Jones (1991), this study examines the effects of moral intensity and organizational factors on individual ethical decision making. Organizational factors, used to be ignored in previous research, are also believed to influence the ethical decision making process. A survey applying four different scenarios was conducted to master and doctoral degree students ...

A growing body of research suggests that the experience of disgust increases the severity of moral judgments. In addition, individual difference variables such as Disgust Sensitivity (DS) are associated with differential appraisals of moral transgressions. However, the influence of combined trait and state levels of disgust on judgments of such transgressions has not been fully explored. The pr...

Three studies examined the associations between relational adult attachment and moral judgment. Study 1 shows that attachmentrelated anxiety and avoidance are uniquely and differentially related to moral concerns. Relative to low insecurity, higher avoidance was associated with weaker moral concerns about harm and unfairness, whereas higher anxiety was associated with stronger moral concerns ab...

Psychopaths are the bugbears of moral philosophy. They are often used as examples of perfectly rational people who are nonetheless willing to do great moral wrong without regret; hence the disorder has received the epithet “moral insanity” (Pritchard 1835). But whereas philosophers have had a great deal to say about psychopaths’ glaring and often horrifying lack of moral conscience, their aesth...

Researchers have proposed that females and males differ in the structure of their moral attitudes, such that females tend to adopt care-based moral evaluations and males tend to adopt justice-based moral evaluations. The existence of these gender differences remains a controversial issue, as behavioral studies have reported mixed findings. The current study investigated the neural correlates of...

the ethical sensitivity of nurses in decision making in ayatollah taleghani hospital, 1391     baghaei r [1] ,moradi y [2] *,aminolsharehs [3] ,zareh h [4]     received: 30 sep , 2013 accepted: 3 dec , 2013   abstract   background & aims : the ethical decision making process to identify the problems through analysis, and to decide about them in accordance with ethical standards is an important ...

In a recent issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, Harrison et al. (2012) provided the first evidence of neural correlates on moral sensitivity in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), which is believed to be heightened in this clinical population. This study aimed to explore whether subjects with OCD showed increased ventromedial prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex responses in a functional m...