A distinction is made between two forms of morality on the basis of approach-avoidance differences in self-regulation. Prescriptive morality is sensitive to positive outcomes, activation-based, and focused on what we should do. Proscriptive morality is sensitive to negative outcomes, inhibition-based, and focused on what we should not do. Seven studies profile these two faces of morality, suppo...

Since the early twentieth century, the Supreme Court has interpreted the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment as a progressive mandate that draws its meaning from “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.” In applying this standard, the Court looks to such objective considerations as legislative enactments, patterns of jury dec...

The study elucidates historical and logical necessity of an ethical philosophical dimension law in the form examination applied problems situations (especially relation to law) arising context new technological threats. author dwells on paradigm upward development society protection human rights not individualistic dominant Western type, but priority preserving, developing improving as a whole ...

This research examines how (a) person information (morality vs. competence and positive vs. negative information) and (b) perceiver differences (prosocials vs. proselfs) influence active (Study 1) and more passive (Study 2) forms of information selection in impression formation. Consistent with the moralityimportance hypothesis, the majority of participants first searched for morality informati...

Morality and justice have apparent similarities. Both facilitate social interaction, coordination, and cooperation. Both can feel like external standards that somehow should carry more weight than individuals’ preferences. That said, morality and justice are not synonymous. Scholars as far back as Aristotle have identifi ed ways that morality and justice differ (see Konow, 2008 ). In this chapt...

Morality, sociability, and competence are distinct dimensions in person perception. We argue that a person's morality informs us about their likely intentions, whereas their competence and sociability inform us about the likelihood that they will fulfill those intentions. Accordingly, we hypothesized that whereas morality would be considered unconditionally positive, sociability and competence ...

The Consensus Schedufing Model (CSM) is introduced a way to accommodate negotiation in over-constrained, distributed scheduling problems. The CSM is appropriate for negotiation among a group of peers and is also applicable to a manager that must balance conflicting views of its workers. The distributed scheduling algorithm that is used selects a candidate from the priority list of resource requ...

It is indicated that in his teaching, the thinker, based on ethics (the science of morality), revealed questions about nature and essence individual tried to combine them with legal foundations individual's existence (and such bases, our opinion, can be supremacy law). emphasized that, according an should evaluate decisions actions through recognition freedom self-worth each person. I. Kant pro...

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of torus palatanis and torus mandibularis in relation to age and gender among patients who attended Dental Department of Queen Alia Military Hospital in Jordan. In this study 1218 subjects were examined for the presence of tori by inspection and palpations. Out of 1218 subjects 28.7% had torus palatinus or mandibularis. The highest per...

Greif, Avner, and Tadelis, Steven—A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy Why, how, and under what conditions do moral beliefs persist despite institutional pressure for change?Why do the powerful often fail to promote the morality of their authority? This paper addresses these questions by presenting the role of crypto-morality in moral persistence. Crypto-moral...