Previous studies have demonstrated the key role of emotion in moral judgment, and explored the relationship between emotion regulation and moral judgment. The present study investigated the influence of individual differences in emotion regulation difficulties on moral judgment. Study 1 examined whether individuals with high emotion regulation difficulties made a more deontological judgment. St...

Professional decision making in forensic clinical practice may have lifelong consequences for offenders. Although information on moral development is important for prediction of reoffending and referral to adequate treatment, conclusions regarding moral development are still largely based on unstructured clinical judgment instead of assessment instruments. For this study, the authors examined t...

The fact that a judge can make a discretion on a case has currently acquired recognition. This article is going to make a discussion on employment of the method of balancing of interests by a judge under the active judicial background. It mainly discusses the following several issues: whether a judge should choose a standard inside the law or seek for a standard for judgment outside the law whe...

Moral psychology has long focused on reasoning, but recent evidence suggests that moral judgment is more a matter of emotion and affective intuition than deliberate reasoning. Here we discuss recent findings in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including several studies that specifically investigate moral judgment. These findings indicate the importance of affect, although they allow that ...

Comparative judgment is essential in human social lives. Comparative judgment is a type of human judgment procedure, in which the evaluator is asked which alternative is preferred (e.g., “Do you prefer Brand A to Brand B?” or “How do you estimate the probability of choosing Brand A over Brand B when you compare the two brands? ”). This type of judgment is distinguished from absolute judgment, i...

Many reports have described that a survival judgment task that requires participants to judge words according to their relevance to a survival situation can engender better recall than that obtained in other judgment tasks such as semantic or self-judgment tasks. We investigated whether memory enhancement related to the survival judgment task is elicited or not in subclinically depressed partic...