Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: moral questions http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Study says empathy plays a key role in moral judgments Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Those who tend to say "yes" when faced with this classic dilemma are likely to be deficient in a specific kind of empathy, according to a report published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-empathy-key-role-moral-judgments.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 May 2013 04:58:03 EST news288417470 'Moral realism' may lead to better moral behavior Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Boston College researchers report in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-moral-realism-behavior.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:55:35 EST news278682924