News tagged with moral objections
Study: Health undervalued in reproductive rights debate
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Women's health is increasingly undervalued in conflicts over reproductive rights, including clashes based on moral objections under so-called conscience clauses, a new study by a University of Illinois legal expert found.
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Moral dilemma scenarios prone to biases
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Picture the following hypothetical scenario: A trolley is headed toward five helpless victims. The trolley can be redirected so that only one person's life is at stake. Psychologists and philosophers have been using moral ...
Men, women give to charity differently, says new research
Dec 18, 2008 |
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To whom would you rather give money: a needy person in your neighborhood or a needy person in a foreign country? According to new research by Texas A&M University marketing professor Karen Winterich and colleagues, if you're ...
Hummer owners claim moral high ground to excuse overconsumption
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Sep 21, 2009 |
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Hummer drivers believe they are defending America's frontier lifestyle against anti-American critics, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Are women more generous? New study sheds light on donation behavior
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Why would women give more to the victims of Hurricane Katrina than to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research sheds light onto the way gender and moral identity affect donati ...
Trust your gut? Study explores religion, morality and trust in authority
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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In a world filled with dogma, doctrine and discipline, it is accurate to say most of us strive to do what we believe is "right." These convictions and beliefs permeate every aspect of our lives, including education, ethics ...
Cleanliness can compromise moral judgment
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, showing that intuition, rather ...
Psychologists shed light on origins of morality
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 26, 2009 |
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In everyday language, people sometimes say that immoral behaviours "leave a bad taste in your mouth". But this may be more than a metaphor according to new scientific evidence from the University of Toronto that shows a ...
Who shalt not kill? Brain power leads to level-headedness when faced with moral dilemmas
Jun 09, 2008 |
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Should a sergeant sacrifice a wounded private on the battlefield in order to save the rest of his troops? Is euthanasia acceptable if it prevents needless suffering? Many of us will have to face some sort of extreme moral ...
Moral philosopher questions memory manipulation
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Is medicated memory manipulation ethically sound? And perhaps more importantly, who should be charged with the decision to deliver such a treatment: patient or physician?
Judge sets deadline for amended Google book deal
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal judge set a Nov. 9 deadline Wednesday for submitting a revised agreement in the battle over Google Inc.'s effort to get digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.
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