Abstract What should we think about ‘acts of conscience’, viz., cases where our personal judgments and public authority come into conflict such that principled resistance to the latter seems necessary? Philosophers mainly debate two issues: Accommodation Question , i.e., ‘When, if ever, accommodate claims conscience?’ Justification are justified in engaging acts conscience – why?’. By contrast,...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t We examine implications of a society's cultural emphasis on moral sentiments. Entrepreneurs and investors interact in a game that entails both adverse selection and moral hazard; entrepreneurs may attempt to breach their contracts and expropriate investors. An agent is born into a particular culture but chooses whether to develop a moral conscience and ther...

The paper reports the results of two experiments in which people who first made an immoral choice were then more likely to donate to charity than those who did not. In addition, those who knew that a donation opportunity would follow the potential moral transgression were more likely to behave immorally than those who were not told of the donation option. We interpret this increase in charitabl...

RÉSUMÉ. Lorsqu'ils sont fortement prescriptifs, les Environnement Interactifs pour l'Apprentissage Humain (EIAH) cloisonnent les utilisateurs entre eux. Pour mettre en valeur le travail de chacun, nous voulons faire prendre conscience aux utilisateurs qu'ils font partie d'un groupe qui a des intérêts convergents. Nous pensons qu'un système adaptatif est le support approprié pour faire émerger l...

OBJECTIVES To compare moral development and psychopathological interference with conscience functioning (PI) among adolescents exposed to different degrees of earthquake-related trauma and to investigate the relationship of moral development and PI to exposure to trauma, severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, postearthquake adversities, and extent of loss of nuclear family m...