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  1. 1. The Impetuous Voice of Reason : Emotion versus reason in moral decision-making

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Erik Svenning; [2018]
    Keywords : Moral decision-making; emotional decision-making; somatic marker hypothesis; social intuitionist model; the dual process theory; the event-feature-emotion complexes;

    Abstract : This is a review of what the currently dominant theories of moral decision-making are and where they derive from. While the introduction serves as a common ground to explain what moral decision-making is, the earlier parts of the thesis describe older traditionalist theories within the field,  theories of emotional decision-making, in the form of the somatic marker hypothesis, as well as critique of the older traditionalist theories through the social intuitionist model. READ MORE

  2. 2. Attribution and judgment : examining the relation between attributing capacities and moral judgments about killing animals

    University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

    Author : Per Andersson; [2013]
    Keywords : moral judgment; attribution; attributed capacities; social intuitionist model; SIM; perspective-taking; attribution-judgment schemas; generalized schema model;

    Abstract : A new operationalization was used to model a schema-based approach to moral judgment, as well as compare it to predictions based on the Social Intuitionist Model. Judgments were made about the moral wrongness of killing different animals. At Time 1, only moral judgments were made. READ MORE