Background: Multiple sclerosis is one of the most debilitating diseases of the central nervous system, which has chronic process. Clinical manifestations of this disease can also affect their daily activities and, as a result, reduce the quality of life in these people. Thus, considering the importance of quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis, the present study examines the relati...

The relation of self-understanding and moral judgment to dedicated prosocial behavior is investigated. Participants were African-American and Latin-American adolescents who had been nominated by community leaders for having demonstrated unusual commitments to care for others or the community (care exemplars). The care exemplars, and matched comparison adolescents, were extensively interviewed o...

This article provides an answer to the question of why agents make self-serving decisions under moral hazard and how their self-serving decisions can be kept in check through institutional arrangements. Our theoretical model predicts that the agents’ power and the manner in which they are held accountable jointly determine their propensity to make self-serving decisions. We test our theory in t...

Two studies examine the extent to which moral identity and moral disengagement jointly drive reactions to war. Study 1 Wnds support for a hypothesized positive relationship between moral disengagement and the perceived morality of a highly punitive response to the perpetuators of the September 11th attacks. It also Wnds that this eVect was eliminated for participants who place high self-importa...

Witnessing acts of uncommon moral virtue can elicit feelings elevation, which translate further into prosocial intentions and behaviour. Recent findings suggest that identity strengt...

1 In " A brief history of information ethics " , Thomas Froehlich (2004) quickly surveys under several broad categories some of the many issues that constitute information ethics: under and violence in the press; and under intercultural information ethics: digital divide, and the ethical role of the Internet for social, political, cultural and economic development. Many of the debates in inform...

Age changes' measures of prosocial responding and reasoning were examined. Participants' reports of helping, empathy-related responding, and prosocial moral reasoning were obtained in adolescence (from age 15-16 years) and into adulthood (to age 25-26 years). Perspective taking and approval/interpersonal oriented/stereotypic prosocial moral reasoning increased from adolescence into adulthood, w...

Previous research emphasizes people's dispositions as a source of differences in moral views. We investigate another source of moral disagreement, self-interest. In three experiments, participants played a simple economic game in which one player divides money with a partner according to the principle of equality (same payoffs) or the principle of equity (pay-offs proportional to effort expende...