Abstract The Moral Foreign Language Effect (MFLE) is characterized by increased utilitarian decision-making when bilinguals respond to moral dilemmas in their foreign language. While previous research has given us a better understanding of this phenomenon, few studies have investigated how language experience influences the MFLE. present study whether differences proficiency, immersion, or domi...

A number of specific and commonly recognized moral principles have been articulated for application in the realm of health care ethics. Some ethicists, notably Beauchamp and Childress (2004), have used such principles as a primary framework for ethical analysis and dialogue. In this approach, referred to as principlism, each principle represents a serious, though not absolute, moral duty that m...

Background: Recent neuroscience investigations on moral judgment have provided useful information about how brain processes such complex decision making. All these studies carried out so far were fMRI investigations and therefore were constrained by the poor temporal resolution of this technique. Recent advances in electroencephalography (EEG) analysis provided by Low Resolution Tomogray (Loret...

Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents the fundamentals of Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its advancement in technology has brought benefit to mankind over years, which helps amplify our daily lives numerous ways. Among technologies that have been innovated utilizing AI are Lawyers (AI Lawyers), autonomous vehicles, judges, augmented drafting services and...

In the political arena, lesbian and gay issues have typically been contested on grounds of human rights, but with variable success. Using a moral developmental framework, the purpose of this study was to explore preferences for different types of moral arguments when thinking about moral dilemmas around lesbian and gay issues. The analysis presented here comprised data collected from 545 studen...

Late last year the English Court of Appeal confirmed a lower court’s ruling that doctors could impose an operation to separate recently born conjoined twins, overriding the refusal of consent of their parents. The doctors believed the operation would probably save one of the babies at the cost of killing the other, while not operating would highly probably be followed by the death of both twins...

The discussion of moral dilemmas is often proposed as one way to teach ethics. But can ethics be taught to everyone? Do participants’ value orientations predict the acquisition of moral competence in an educational context? This study presents data from an evaluation of a course on the social consequences of information technology (IT). IT-related dilemma discussions were used extensively in th...