Moral Superiority among Birds

MORAL SUPERIORITY AND MORAL BEHAVIOR 1 Investigating the relationship between self-perceived moral superiority and moral behavior using economic games

The Illusion of Moral Superiority

Most people strongly believe they are just, virtuous, and moral; yet regard the average person as distinctly less so. This invites accusations of irrationality in moral judgment and perception-but direct evidence of irrationality is absent. Here, we quantify this irrationality and compare it against the irrationality in other domains of positive self-evaluation. Participants (N = 270) judged th...

Testing for Superiority among Two Regression Curves

Moral Distress among Iranian Nurses

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the moral distress among Iranian registered nurses. METHODS This was a descriptive -analytic study, in which 264 out of 1000 nurses were randomly selected as a sample group and completed the questionnaire. The nurses' moral distress was assessed using Corley's 30-item Moral Distress Scale adapted for use in an Iranian population. The collect...

Foundational ethics of the health care system: the moral and practical superiority of free market reforms.

Proposed solutions to the problems of this country's health care system range along a spectrum from central planning to free market. Central planners and free market advocates provide various ethical justifications for the policies they propose. The crucial flaw in the philosophical rationale of central planning is failure to distinguish between normative and metanormative principles, which lea...