BACKGROUND Moral judgments depend on the integration of complex cognitive and emotional processes. Addiction is associated with core deficits in both cognitive and emotional processing, which may jointly lead to utilitarian biases in moral decision-making. METHODS We assessed 32 polysubstance dependent males and 32 non-drug using controls using a previously validated moral judgment task, incl...

We empirically examine the reflexive or automatic aspects of moral decision making. To begin, we develop and validate a measure of an individual's implicit assumption regarding the inherent morality of business. Then, using an in-basket exercise, we demonstrate that an implicit assumption that business is inherently moral impacts day-to-day business decisions and interacts with contextual cues ...

Humans daily face social situations involving conflicts between competing moral decision. Despite a substantial amount of studies published over the past 10 years, the respective role of emotions and reason, their possible interaction, and their behavioural expression during moral evaluation remains an unresolved issue. A dualistic approach to moral evaluation proposes that the right dorsolater...

Management scholars have examined the ethical decision-making process of individuals in organizations but, with a few notable exceptions, have largely failed to undertake a careful analysis of the role of culture. In this note I explore the impact of individualism and collectivism on three basic aspects of ethical decision making—the perception of moral problems, moral reasoning, and behavior. ...

The study of moral decision making by cognitive scientists is coming of age. The earlier years of research were characterized by bold claims regarding the evolutionary origins of morality, the primacy of unconscious mechanisms over reasoning in determining moral behavior, and the relationship between various features of neurophysiology and moral agency. In turn, these claims generated criticism...

Looking to the operation of an agent architecture, ie. its goal generation and maintenance processing, is relevant to understand fully how a moral based agent takes appropriate and diverse decisions within social situations of serious games. How decision does happen is a complex issue and the major motivation of this paper, and our answer, the proposal of a new architecture, is supported on the...