This essay challenges science’s traditional taboo against anthropomorphizing animals or considering their behavior as indicative of feelings similar to human emotions. In their new book Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, the authors argue that anthropomorphism is alive and well, as it should be. Here they describe some activities of animals, particularly animals at play, as clear signs t...

The paper considers collective agreements that are signed by a government agency and an industry which have an energy saving target. The target achievement is observable, but the energy saving actions undertaken by firms in the industry are not. We consider such agreements as firm contracts that depend on whether the industry complies with the target or not. We show that first best regulation c...

If entrepreneurs have private information about factors influencing the outcome of an investment, individual lending is inefficient. The literature typically offers solutions based on the assumption of full peer information to solve adverse selection problems and peer monitoring to solve moral hazard problems. In contrast, I show that it is possible to construct a simple budget-balanced mechani...

T purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between adolescents' empathy and maturity of moral reasoning with their self-reported prosocial behaviour. Fourteenyear-oldadolescents (N=311) were administered scales measuring emotional empathy, fantasy and prosocial behaviour. Kohlberg's structured moral dilemmas were used to measure moral jUdgement maturity. Data were analysed...

using 3 psychological scales, this study examined the level of emotional intelligence, moral judgment, and leadership of more than 200 gifted high school students who participated in an accelerative academic program or an enrichment leadership program through a university-based gifted institute. Major findings include that on emotional intelligence, gifted males were comparable to students in t...

Cultural psychology ultimately aims to increase intercultural understanding, but it has also been accused of reifying stereotypes. Can learning about cultural psychology research cause students to increase their cultural sensitivity, or does it increase stereotyped and rigid thinking about cultural others? Students in an undergraduate cultural psychology course (N = 34) were compared to student...

OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes and the influence of emotional intelligence is the objective of this work. METHOD Nursing professionals answered a questionnaire that assessed the attitude towards suicide and emotional intelligence. RESULTS The results show a general adverse attitude towards suicidal behavior. The moral dimension of suicide makes the differences between mental health and emerg...

With the development of information technology, educational games have become an instructional tool to make students learn and can run on a variety of mobile terminal which can provide a more user-friendly environment for mobile learning. In this study, the authors search a lot of literature to understand educational games. Secondly, the authors put suggestions on game design and development fo...