This article examines the intricacy within stylized debates that surround conservation and the regulation of wildlife trade in Southeast Asia. Illegal and unregulated trade in wildlife has been characterized by conservation groups as a great risk for wildlife worldwide and the prime threat for remaining wildlife populations in Laos. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (C...

Deterrence studies have shown that perceived sanction risk is related to delinquent behaviour, independent of other variables, and that this relation may be conditioned by individual propensity towards crime. The principal goal of this study is to assess these findings with data from a sample of 843 Dutch adolescents. First, we analysed whether perceived sanction risk (perceived apprehension ri...

Reflecting on the significance of his early research on the neuropsychology of moral judgment, Joshua Greene raises an important and increasingly pressing kind of question: “Where does one draw the line between correcting the nearsightedness of human moral nature and obliterating it completely?” and goes on to more directly wonder “How far can the empirical debunking of human moral nature go?” ...

BACKGROUND The value of ethics education have been questioned. Therefore we did a student survey on attitudes about the teaching of ethics in Swedish medical schools. METHODS Questionnaire survey on attitudes to ethics education with 409 Swedish medical students participating. We analyzed > 8000 words of open-ended responses and multiple-choice questions using classic grounded theory procedur...

In the early parts of the 20th century, character made up a major part of psychology, specifically of personality psychology. However, an influential observational study of children’s moral behavior, conducted by Hartshorne, May, and colleagues in the 1920s, suggested that consistency in morality-related behavior was lower than many people expected. Some psychologists interpreted such results t...

This paper examines compatibility of some existing understandings of morality with the likely phenomenon of increasing human-robot interaction (HRI) in the United States. Particularly for cases involving autonomous humanoid robots, it is argued that impacts of HRI may differ dramatically as a function of the received understandings of morality encountered.

The manipulation of objects with state which changes over time is all-pervasive in computing. Perhaps the simplest example of such objects are the program variables of classical imperative languages. An important strand of work within the study of such languages, pioneered by John Reynolds, focuses on \Idealized Algol", an elegant synthesis of imperative and functional features. We present a no...

The prevalence of each sexually transmitted disease in the community is due to interaction between the seed (or agent), the soil (or host), and the social and moral climate. Both syphilis and gonorrhoea are perhaps milder diseases than formerly. This may be due to changes in the host, and also to the fact that an infection that produces severe symptoms is more likely to be diagnosed, treated, a...

Abstract Research studying the effects of non-financial goals on stakeholder relationships remains inconclusive, with scholars disagreeing which increase or decrease a firm’s proactive engagement (PSE). Instead examining act as forces for good evil, we shift focus recent discussions by emphasizing mechanisms that can explain positive and negative outcomes under umbrella one theoretical lens. We...

Abstract One of the standard examples in contemporary moral psychology originates works social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. He treats people's responses to story Julie and Mark, two siblings who decide have casual, consensual, protected sex, as facts human morality, providing evidence for his intuitionist approach judgements. We argue that Haidt's description reactions respondents ‘morally dumb...