News tagged with moral dilemma

The brain of OCD sufferers is more active when faced with a moral dilemma

Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are characterised by persistent thoughts and repetitive behaviours. A new study reveals that sufferers worry considerably more than the general population in the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Nov 08, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |

Moral dilemma: Would you kill 1 person to save 5?

Imagine a runaway boxcar heading toward five people who can't escape its path. Now imagine you had the power to reroute the boxcar onto different tracks with only one person along that route.

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 01, 2011 | 3.3 / 5 (12) | 142 |

Antisocial personality traits predict utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas

A study conducted by Daniel Bartels, Columbia Business School, Marketing, and David Pizarro, Cornell University, Psychology found that people who endorse actions consistent with an ethic of utilitarianism—the view that ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Sep 30, 2011 | 4.2 / 5 (21) | 81 |

More focus needed on mental health triage in disaster preparedness, bioethicists urge

Johns Hopkins University bioethicists say disaster-response planning has generally overlooked the special needs of people who suffer from pre-existing and serious mental conditions. Survivors already diagnosed with schizophrenia, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry May 23, 2011 | not rated yet | 0 |

What will people do for money?

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the April 4, 2011 annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society the subject of moral dilemmas and what people would really do was addressed. In a study presented by Oriel FeldmanHall of Cambridge University shows that when it comes to ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Apr 08, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 72 |

Study suggests feelings of guilt may be a top factor in PTSD

A leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder is guilt that troops experience because of moral dilemmas faced in combat, according to preliminary findings of a study of active-duty Marines.

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 06, 2011 | not rated yet | 0

Are doing harm and allowing harm equivalent? Ask fMRI

People typically say they are invoking an ethical principle when they judge acts that cause harm more harshly than willful inaction that allows that same harm to occur. That difference is even codified in criminal law. A ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 02, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 71