Present study examines the effect of incidental haptic sensations on acceptance of utilitarian judgment—seeking greater happiness in exchange for a few victims—under personal and impersonal moral dilemmas. Recently, Nakamura et al. (2014) indicated that physical coldness reduced empathic concern and facilitated utilitarian judgment in personal moral dilemma. It is also shown that tactile sensat...

This paper develops the key finding of Hogan, Ozanne and Colman (2000) that risk aversion among farmers ameliorates the moral hazard problem in relation to agri-environmental policy compliance. It is shown that risk averse farmers who face uncertainty in their production income are more likely to comply with such a policy as a means of risk management. In addition, it is shown that a principal ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Abnormalities in cognitive control and disgust responding are well-documented in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and also interfere with flexible, outcome-driven utilitarian moral reasoning. The current study examined whether individuals with OCD differ from healthy and anxious individuals in their use of utilitarian moral reasoning, and whether abnormalities in i...

Current causal theories aim to incorporate the effect of statistical and prescriptive norms on causal judgements, stating that norm-violating actions are judged as more causal than norm-conforming ones. In this paper, we present two experiments that undermine this claim, showing that people attribute increased causality to agents who conform to the norm of frequent behaviour. Furthermore, we fi...

We propose a revised set of moral dilemmas for studies on moral judgment. We selected a total of 46 moral dilemmas available in the literature and fine-tuned them in terms of four conceptual factors (Personal Force, Benefit Recipient, Evitability, and Intention) and methodological aspects of the dilemma formulation (word count, expression style, question formats) that have been shown to influen...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of situational factors and internal psychological states on employees’ decisions perform voluntary pro-environmental behavior. study used a model combining theory planned behavior, norm activation comprehensive action determination model. stud also explored moderating role habit (HAB) relationship between intention actual Design/methodology/appr...