BACKGROUND Recent studies of moral reasoning in patients with alcohol use disorders have indicated a "utilitarian" bias, whereby patients are more likely to endorse emotionally aversive actions in favor of aggregate welfare (e.g., throwing a dying person into the sea to keep a lifeboat of survivors afloat). Here, we investigate the underlying psychological and neuropsychological processes. ME...

D ecision making in the face of conflicting ethical demands has intrigued mankind for millennia. A long philosophical tradition has placed emphasis on reasoning, about utilitarian outcomes, for example, in such decisions (1). However, recent work in social neuroscience (2, 3) has identified brain circuits active during moral judgment that have been linked to prosocial emotions such as empathy, ...

Traditional studies on moral judgement used resolutions of moral dilemmas that were framed in terms of acceptability of the consequentialist action promoting a greater good, thus overlooking the deontological implications (choices cannot be justified by their consequences). Recently, some authors have suggested a parallelism between automatic, unreflective emotional responses and deontological ...

BACKGROUND People encounter various moral issues that involve making decisions for others by giving advice. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the characteristics of providing suggestions for oneself versus providing suggestions for others in ethical decision-making and the differences between them based on Construal Level Theory (CLT). METHODS A total of 768 undergraduate students from thre...

We present a Logic Programming framework for moral reasoning under uncertainty. It is enacted by a coherent combination of our two previously implemented systems, Evolution Prospection for decision making, and P-log for probabilistic inference. It allows computing available moral judgments via distinct kinds of prior and post preferences. In introducing various aspects of uncertainty into cases...