This article explores shifting definitions of propaganda, because how we define the slippery enterprise determines whether we perceive propaganda to be ethical or unethical. I also consider the social psychology and semantics of propaganda, because our ethics are shaped by and reflect our belief systems, values, and language behaviors. Finally, in the article I redefine propaganda in a way that...

I argue here that good medical ethics requires an empirically-informed moral psychology of medical virtue along with sound action-guiding prescriptions for virtuous medical practice. After distinguishing between three levels of justification, I indicate how medical virtue ethics can draw constructively on relevant empirical research in developing feasible and realistic aspirational standards fo...

*** In Press at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology *** Moral realism as moral motivation: The impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making Running Head: Moral realism as motivation Liane Young and AJ Durwin Department of Psychology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Liane Young, Department of ...

a University of Bern, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3014 Bern, Switzerland b University of Zurich, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, Pestalozzistrasse 24, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland c University of Kassel, Department of Psychology, Holländische Str. 36-38, 34127 Kassel, Germany d Bern University Hospital, Division of Psychosomatic Medi...

1Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden 2Network for Empowerment and Well-Being, Sweden 3Blekinge Centre of Competence, Karlskrona, Sweden 4Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health, University of Gothenburg, Sweden *Corresponding author: Dr. T. Archer, Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Box 500, S-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden, Tel: 0704-668623; E-ma...