Affective processes and cognitive control processes enableindividuals to respond efficiently to moral dilemmas that induceconflict and/or are incongruent with personal and social values.We examined whether emotional primes influence one's abilityto judge the appropriateness of a decision with ease, ...
Compunction:A feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad. Conceit:Feeling an excessively favorable opinion of one’s own ability, importance, wit, etc. Concerned:Feeling worried, troubled or anxious; the feeling of sympathy. Confident:The feeling or show...
Influence from feelings in judgment and decision making was first recognized nearly three decades ago. More recent work has developed models that generalize the mechanisms by which feelings operate. Feelings may play multiple roles in judgment and decision processes, including providing information, ...
Legal norms are interpreted by individuals with moral frameworks and idiosyncratic evaluations. As a judge interviewee points out, even daily constraints may affect the judgment of a legal professional: I know that saying it like this may sound a bit scary, especially for those who, one day, ...
The last post on feelings generated some excellent conversations. In a couple of them, it was pointed out that my description of feelings put a lot of work on the concept of imagination, and that maybe I should expand on that topic a bit. In their excel
approaches an intersection. Five pedestrians jump into the road and there’s little time to react. While swerving out of the way would save the pedestrians, the resulting crash would kill the driver. The Trolley Problem itself is a moral dilemma comparing what is good to what sacrifice...
The selectivity of moral disengagement in defenders of cyberbullying: contextual moral disengagement. Comput Human Behav. 2019;93:318–325. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.038 16. Machackova H, Pfetsch J. Bystanders' responses to offline bullying and cyberbullying: the role of empathy and normative ...
Sexual violence is a central dimension of what is generally called violence against women. Historically, the law has been one of the structures that has reinforced gender inequality and legitimized male seizure of women’s sexuality within and outside ma
The selectivity of moral disengagement in defenders of cyberbullying: contextual moral disengagement. Comput Human Behav. 2019;93:318–325. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.038 16. Machackova H, Pfetsch J. Bystanders' responses to offline bullying and cyberbullying: the role of empathy and normative ...
He argues that behaviour is a function of the intention, of the habitual responses and of situational conditions. The intention is influenced by rational thinking, social limits, and affective factors. In other words, human behaviour is influenced by moral beliefs, but the impact is moderated ...