“Black and White” thinking: Visual contrast polarizes moral judgment

Counterfactual thinking in moral judgment: an experimental study

Counterfactual thinking is thinking about a past that did not happen. This is often the case in "if only…" situations, where we wish something had or had not happened. To make a choice in a moral decision-making situation is particularly hard and, therefore, may be often associated with the imagination of a different outcome. The main aim of the present study is to investigate counterfactual th...

The Effect of Metacognition Education Program on Critical Thinking and Moral Judgment of Elementary Students

Introduction: Development and strengthening of students' intellectual and moral skills has always been one of the essential  goals of educational systems in different countries, so the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of metacognition education program on critical thinking and moral judgment of elementary students. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed by prete...

Contrast-Enhanced Black and White Images

This paper investigates contrast enhancement as an approach to tone reduction, aiming to convert a photograph to black and white. Using a filter-based approach to strengthen contrast, we avoid making a hard decision about how to assign tones to segmented regions. Our method is inspired by sticks filtering, used to enhance medical images but not previously used in non-photorealistic rendering. W...

Time and moral judgment.

Do moral judgments hinge on the time available to render them? According to a recent dual-process model of moral judgment, moral dilemmas that engage emotional processes are likely to result in fast deontological gut reactions. In contrast, consequentialist responses that tot up lives saved and lost in response to such dilemmas would require cognitive control to override the initial response. C...

Moral Judgment and Emotions