Sacrifice is widely believed to enhance cooperation in churches, communes, gangs, clans, military units, and many other groups. We find that sacrifice can also work in the lab, apart from special ideologies, identities, or interactions. Our subjects play a modified VCM game-one in which they can voluntarily join groups that provide reduced rates of return on private investment. This leads to bo...

Abstract In the investigation of moral judgments autonomous vehicles (AVs), paradigm sacrificial dilemma is a widespread and flexible experimental tool. this context, sacrifice AV’s passenger typically occurs upon enactment utilitarian option, which differs from traditional dilemmas, in agent’s life often jeopardized non-utilitarian counterpart. The present within-subject study (n = 183) aimed ...

II.?The origin of Fever?the king of diseases.?Shiva, the lord of the three worlds, being angry with Raja Duksh, his father-in-law, because he had not invited him to a sacrifice, and because his wife had committed sutti, sent a demon whom lie had created from his third eye to destroy the Raja and his sacrifice. This personage accomplished the work so satisfactorily that his master changed his na...

Often in romantic relationships, conflict arises which may be resolved when one partner gives up their own self-interests for the well-being of their partner or relationship. Past research has focused on sacrifice through self-reported measures of hypothetical behavior and measures involving both partners in the relationship. The current study sought to create an inexpensive behavioral measure ...

This paper revisits and extends the experiment on the solidarity game by Selten and Ockenfels (1998). We replicate the basic design of the solidarity game and extend it in order to test the robustness of the ’fixed total sacrifice’ effect and the applied strategy method. Our results only partially confirm the validity of the fixed total sacrifice effect. In a treatment with constant group-endow...

According to Phillips curve, one could achieve and maintain a permanently low level of unemployment merely by tolerating a permanently high level of inflation. As you can recall from Phillips curve, the cost of reducing inflation is often measured by the sacrifice ratio, which is the number of percentage points of GDP that must be forgone to reduce inflation by 1 percentage point. Because these...

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At present, there are three available options for surgical thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair: conventional open surgery, total endovascular repair, and a hybrid approach, involving conventional surgical and endovascular techniques. Each modality has a different risk/benefit profile, requiring careful patient selection. Spinal cord injury (SCI) due to compromised blood supply follow...

Recent advances in reprogramming technology do not bypass the ethical challenge of embryo sacrifice. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) research has been and almost certainly will continue to be conducted within the context of embryo sacrifice. If human embryos have moral status as human beings, then participation in iPS research renders one morally complicit in their destruction; if human emb...