Abstract A consensus seems to be emerging in economics that at least three motives are at work in many strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important obstacle to this research, however, has been moral biases, i.e., the distortions created by self-interest that can obscure our measures of social preferences. Among other things, this has led ...

Research on moral judgment has been dominated by rationalist models, in which moral judgment is thought to be caused by moral reasoning. The author gives 4 reasons for considering the hypothesis that moral reasoning does not cause moral judgment; rather, moral reasoning is usually a post hoc construction, generated after a judgment has been reached. The social intuitionist model is presented as...

I start with the premise that any social robot must have moral competence. I offer a framework for what moral competence is and sketch the prospects for it to be developed in artificial agents. After considering three proposals for requirements of “moral agency” I propose instead to examine moral competence as a broader set of capacities. I posit that human moral competence consists of five com...

The current study tested whether preschoolers' moral and social-conventional judgments change under social pressure using Asch's conformity paradigm. A sample of 132 preschoolers (Mage=3.83years, SD=0.85) rated the acceptability of moral and social-conventional events and also completed a visual judgment task (i.e., comparing line length) both independently and after having viewed two peers who...

Moral evaluations constitute a fundamental aspect of human psychology. How does moral competence develop? For decades, this question has been addressed within cognitive-developmental frameworks (e.g., Killen & Smetana, in press; Kohlberg, 1971; Piaget, 1932), and the general answer has been that moral development is a constructivist process: children develop the ability to make increasingly sop...

We study the influence of policy uncertainty on moral behavior firms. When facing uncertainty, managers perceive various socioeconomic obstacles as more severe and disruptive to their business. Using data from spouts in 93 countries, we document that some firms engage norm-deviant by cheating taxes paying bribes. While private prefer cheat taxes, public choose bribery a favorite tool “grease wh...

This study shows that corruption in the modern world is viewed as a negative form of deviant behavior sphere state and municipal administration, destructive factor public life, which largely determines social climate society national security. Corruption an obstacle to development real democracy growth well-being population. It has multiple reasons grounds for spreading on political, economic, ...

This paper provides a historical overview of the concept corruption, existing models for studying it, and main costs that corruption imposes on economy society at large. Corruption was first understood as disturbance balance state power, later immorality political patronage favouritism certain groups. It evolved from public sphere to intertwining private spheres, issue economic issues. The figh...

“ This disposition to admire, and almost worship, the rich powerful, despise, or, at least, neglect persons of poor mean condition, though necessary both establish maintain distinction ranks order society, is, same time, great most universal cause corruption our moral sentiments.” TMS I.iii.3.1