Findings suggest that people with schizophrenia focus equally on outcomes across moral-judgement conditions that ought normally to elicit an outcome-action discrepancy, suggesting that they are less influenced by an automatic aversive response to harmful acts in dilemma scenarios, consistent with a dual-...
To determine whether children’s difficulty with harm-based situations reflects demand characteristics, a second set of experiments presented forty-three preschoolers and thirty-nine adults with a moral dilemma wherein they could choose to omit an action and maximize harm or act to minimize harm. ...
Children learn their behavior from adults. Do not take out your anger or frustration on your child. Pause for moment when you are angry of frustrated, take a deep breath to let out the emotions and then talk to the child. If you have snapped at your child in anger, apologize to him ...
For the moral judgment task, the order of presentation of scenarios from each condition was randomized within subjects. Each dilemma description was presented in a single screen. Participants could read this screen at their own pace and move to the questions, by pressing the spacebar on the ...
This study investigated hypothetical moral choices in adults with high-functioning autism and the role of empathy and alexithymia in such choices. We used a highly emotionally salient moral dilemma task to investigate autistics’ hypothetical moral evalu
A story likeWolf Hollowfeatures a moral dilemma, to do with telling the truth or not in order to protect someone. Interestingly,Wolf Hollowwas originally written for adults, and revised for children when an editor saw a position for it on the children’s book market. ...
(B) Each trial consisted of a priming phase and a moral dilemma. In the priming phase, subjects were first exposed to a forward- and backward-masked face prime. Masks and primes were all presented for 16.66 ms (one monitor refresh at 60 Hz). They then had to rate a neutral target ...
Johnson, E., & Hong, S. (2017). Exposing the American dilemma: How aversive racism plays a part in homicide news reception.Howard Journal of Communications,28(3), 297–319. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2017.1286274 (Open in a new window)Google Scholar ...
A sample of 20,474 French adults answered an online survey measuring attitudes toward animals and moral decision making involving human beings. Results showed that irrespective of participants’ age and gender, there was a slight relationship between utilitarianism measured by the trolley dilemma and ...
The vmPFC appears intimately linked with emotional arousal (Harenski & Hamann, 2006; Moll et al., 2007); the TPJ seems to subserve the capacity to think about another's perspective when deliberating over a moral dilemma (FeldmanHall, Dalgleish, & Mobbs, 2013; Young et al., 2007; Young ...