Moral judgment often requires making difficult tradeoffs (e.g., is it appropriate to torture to save the lives of innocents at risk?). Previous research suggests that both emotional appraisals and more deliberative utilitarian appraisals influence such judgments and that these appraisals often conflict. However, it is unclear how these different types of appraisals are represented in the brain,...

As with organizational development, citizenship behavior should be central to the development and success of open professional virtual communities. An increasing literature emphasizes on predicting knowledge contribution behaviors in virtual communities (VC) from the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation or benefit perspectives. In line with the consumer behavior literature that distinguishes betw...

Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Classic moral dilemmas are often defined by the conflict between a putatively rational response to maximize aggregate welfare (i.e., the utilitarian judgment) and an emotional aversion to harm (i.e., the non-utilitarian judgment). Here, we address two questions. First, what specific aspect of emotional responding is relevant for these judgments? Secon...

In this paper we re-examine the axiomatic basis of the key result on weighted utilitarian representation of preference orders on finite utility streams. We show that a preference order satisfying the axioms of Minimal Individual Symmetry, Invariance and Strong Pareto need not have a representation, and thus in particular a weighted utilitarian representation. The example establishing this resul...

It is generally recognized that online shopping has both utilitarian as well as hedonic components. The primary focus of this investigation is to examine task framing (either utilitarian or hedonic) and length of viewing time (unlimited or 5 s) as conditions that influence user website perceptions and viewing behavior. Whether a task is framed as either hedonic or utilitarian received limited s...

Technology acceptance in private spaces has not received much attention, although users' behaviour may be different due to the space which usage takes place. To address this gap, present study proposed a model exploring individuals' values, perception of technology performance and attitudinal beliefs relation use satisfaction when using smart technologies their homes. The employed sample 422 pa...

Artificial intelligence-based voice assistants (VAs) such as Amazon Alexa deliver personalized product recommendations in order to match consumers’ needs. The use of for shopping purposes incorporates elements risk affecting when and how they are considered trusted relationship partners. In this uncertain environment, it is unclear ‘when’ capable gaining trust ‘how’ the development a affects de...

 Arguments for and against the legal prohibition of drugs are surveyed. Various kinds of argument are identified and analysed: arguments against prohibition from a moral right to personal liberty; utilitarian and contractualist arguments for a right to personal liberty; arguments for prohibition from liberty-limiting principles (the harm principle, legal paternalism, legal moralism, Kan...