The cognitive neuroscience of moral judgment and decision making

JD Greene - 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Cognitive neuroscience aims to understand the mind in physical terms. This endeavor
assumes that the mind can be understood in physical terms, and, insofar as it is successful …

Beneficiary effects in prosocial decision making: Understanding unequal valuations of lives

A Erlandsson, S Dickert, H Moche… - European Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
To understand human prosocial behaviour, one must consider not only the helpers and the
requesters, but also the characteristics of the beneficiaries. To this aim, this articles reviews …

Compassion fade: Affect and charity are greatest for a single child in need

D Västfjäll, P Slovic, M Mayorga, E Peters - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Charitable giving in 2013 exceeded $300 billion, but why do we respond to some life-saving
causes while ignoring others? In our first two studies, we demonstrated that valuation of lives …

Moral judgment and decision making

DM Bartels, CW Bauman, FA Cushman… - The Wiley Blackwell …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter focuses on moral flexibility, a term that the authors use that people are strongly
motivated to adhere to and affirm their moral beliefs in their judgments and choices, they …

The effects of embodying wildlife in virtual reality on conservation behaviors

D Pimentel, S Kalyanaraman - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Efforts to mitigate environmental threats are often inversely related to the magnitude of
casualty, human or otherwise. This “compassion fade” can be explained, in part, by …

Compassionate conservation clashes with conservation biology: Should empathy, compassion, and deontological moral principles drive conservation practice?

AS Griffin, A Callen, K Klop-Toker, RJ Scanlon… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
“Compassionate Conservation” is an emerging movement within conservation science that
is gaining attention through its promotion of “ethical” conservation practices that place …

[HTML][HTML] Pseudoinefficacy: negative feelings from children who cannot be helped reduce warm glow for children who can be helped

D Västfjäll, P Slovic, M Mayorga - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
In a great many situations where we are asked to aid persons whose lives are endangered,
we are not able to help everyone. What are the emotional and motivational consequences of …

[HTML][HTML] Scope insensitivity: The limits of intuitive valuation of human lives in public policy

S Dickert, D Västfjäll, J Kleber, P Slovic - Journal of Applied Research in …, 2015 - Elsevier
A critical question for government officials, managers of NGOs, and politicians is how to
respond to situations in which large numbers of lives are at risk. Theories in judgment and …

A critical analysis of multi-criteria models for the prioritisation of health threats

G Montibeller, P Patel, VJ del Rio Vilas - European Journal of Operational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-criteria assessments are increasingly being employed in the prioritisation of health
threats, supporting decision processes related to health risk management. The use of multi …

Mental imagery, impact, and affect: A mediation model for charitable giving

S Dickert, J Kleber, D Västfjäll, P Slovic - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
One of the puzzling phenomena in philanthropy is that people can show strong compassion
for identified individual victims but remain unmoved by catastrophes that affect large …