BACKGROUND Deciding about undergoing prenatal screening is difficult, as it entails risks, potential loss and regrets, and challenges to personal values. Shared decision making and decision aids (DAs) can help pregnant women give informed and values-based consent or refusal to prenatal screening, but little is known about factors influencing the use of DAs. OBJECTIVE The objective of this stu...

Because robots are perceived as moral agents, they must behave in accordance with human systems of morality. This responsibility is especially acute for language-capable because communication a method building ecosystems. Language capable not only make sure that what say adheres to norms; also actively engage regulate and encourage compliance those norms. In this work, we describe four experime...

Artificial agents will need to be aware of human moral and social norms, and able to use them in decision-making. In particular, artificial agents will need a principled approach to managing conflicting norms, which are common in human social interactions. Existing logic-based approaches suffer from normative explosion and are typically designed for deterministic environments; reward-based appr...

Informal social control is the communication of disapproval by one individual to another individual (the perpetrator) who has transgressed a social norm. The present research examined the conditions under which social control provokes moral versus angry emotions in the perpetrator. The roles of perceived deviance and the appraisal of the legitimacy of social control as predictors of these emoti...

The purpose of this paper is to propose and consider a rationalist account of the effects of virtual experiences, such as engaging in simulated acts of violence in video games. This descriptive account will be based on sound principles for case-based reasoning, or what I will refer to as case-norm-case casuistics, and it is put forward as an alternative to emotivist explanations of the effects ...

In recent European animal welfare statutes, human actions injurious to animals are new "offences" articulated as an injury to societal norms in addition to property damage. A crime is foremost a violation of a community moral standard. Violating a societal norm puts society out of balance and justice is served when that balance is returned. Criminal law normally requires the presence of mens re...

The moral economy is a set of institutionalized rules, norms, and values that guide action in market economies. Historically, the norm wage negotiations has been central pillar U.S. economy, but research suggests this may be changing. In present study, authors seek to evaluate whether decoupled from economy. Results factorial survey experiment administered quota sample adults ( N = 707) indicat...