Sökning: "moral reasoning"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade orden moral reasoning.
1. Temporal Distance and Morality : Moral Concerns Loom Larger in the Distant Future
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation was to examine whether the temporal distance of moral events affects the moral judgments and decisions people make in response to those events. Drawing upon Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope & Liberman, 2003) which posits that the distant future is represented at a higher, more abstract level of mental construal than the near future, and that high-level mental construals shift attention to core values and higher-order principles, the main proposition of this dissertation was that people would show greater moral concerns in response to distant future events than near future events. LÄS MER
2. Hume's law : an essay on moral reasoning
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3. Bortom oskuldens tid : En etnologisk studie av moral, trygghet och otrygghet i skuggan av hiv
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to investigate how the Swedish press coverage of AIDS reflects cultural assumptions about morals, security and insecurity and how these representations affect the lives of people who are HIV-positive. It is clear that HIV-positive people are affected by such representations. LÄS MER
4. Ethical and normative reasoning on climate change : Conceptions and solutions among students in a Chinese context
Sammanfattning : Previous research in environmental education and learning has mainly concerned students’ understanding of natural scientific knowledge, whereas research on the influence of other knowledge in learning environmental issues is marginal. Also, the interest in most studies investigating students’ natural scientific knowledge has been to capture constraints in students’ understanding, hence investigations of students’ meaning making are rare. LÄS MER
5. Moral cognition : Individual differences, intuition and reasoning in moral judgment
Sammanfattning : Psychological processes involved in moral cognition were examined in three studies, taking as their starting point the assumption that the cognitive-developmental perspective commonly taken is too narrow and that individual differences and implicit processes need to be taken into consideration. Study I focused on the role of defense mechanisms in moral thinking. LÄS MER
