Deterrence studies have shown that perceived sanction risk is related to delinquent behaviour, independent of other variables, and that this relation may be conditioned by individual propensity towards crime. The principal goal of this study is to assess these findings with data from a sample of 843 Dutch adolescents. First, we analysed whether perceived sanction risk (perceived apprehension ri...

Reflecting on the significance of his early research on the neuropsychology of moral judgment, Joshua Greene raises an important and increasingly pressing kind of question: “Where does one draw the line between correcting the nearsightedness of human moral nature and obliterating it completely?” and goes on to more directly wonder “How far can the empirical debunking of human moral nature go?” ...

BACKGROUND The value of ethics education have been questioned. Therefore we did a student survey on attitudes about the teaching of ethics in Swedish medical schools. METHODS Questionnaire survey on attitudes to ethics education with 409 Swedish medical students participating. We analyzed > 8000 words of open-ended responses and multiple-choice questions using classic grounded theory procedur...

In the early parts of the 20th century, character made up a major part of psychology, specifically of personality psychology. However, an influential observational study of children’s moral behavior, conducted by Hartshorne, May, and colleagues in the 1920s, suggested that consistency in morality-related behavior was lower than many people expected. Some psychologists interpreted such results t...

This paper examines compatibility of some existing understandings of morality with the likely phenomenon of increasing human-robot interaction (HRI) in the United States. Particularly for cases involving autonomous humanoid robots, it is argued that impacts of HRI may differ dramatically as a function of the received understandings of morality encountered.

Numerous uncertainties are hanging over the biotechnology of human cloning which has prompted medical ethicists and religious organizations to ask questions that bordered on its ethical considerations. In humans, issues arise both in clinical laboratory settings hence, morality manipulating genes is foremost issue among scientists scholars. Therefore, this paper evaluated technology using perso...

The increasing availability of data sets with a huge amount of information, coded in many different features, justifies the research on new methods of knowledge extraction: the great challenge is the translation of the raw data into useful information that can be used to improve decisionmaking processes, detect relevant profiles, find out relationships among features, etc. It is undoubtedly tru...

We investigate the potential of logic programming (LP) to model morality aspects studied in philosophy and psychology. We do so by identifying three morality aspects that appear in our view amenable to computational modeling by appropriately exploiting LP features: dual-process model (reactive and deliberative) in moral judgments; justification of moral judgments by contractualism; and intentio...

Is classical tragedy contingent upon a Greco-Roman sense of morality? Or can tragedy exist within a Judeo-Christian universe as well? Literary critic Northrop Frye’s theory of high-mimetic tragedy inherits distinctions that Aristotle draws between tragedy and comedy in the Poetics. As a brief philological excursion will demonstrate, the binary distinctions upon which Aristotle builds his tragic...

the objective of this study was to analyze spatial patterns of ground-level ozone concentrationin the dallas-fort worth, texas metropolitan area. average daily maximum eight-hour ozone concentration,number of days with concentrations exceeding 75 ppb, average outside air temperature, and resultant winddirection at 20 monitoring stations were compiled for january-december, 2013. recent estimates...