A large body of research has investigated responses to artificial scenarios (eg, trolley
problem) where maximizing beneficial outcomes for the greater good (utilitarianism) conflicts …

Despite people's capacity for both good and evil, scant research has jointly examined the
relations of affiliative and aversive traits with moral-dilemma judgments. Using the CNI …

A growing line of research suggests that disagreement in moral-dilemma judgments may be
rooted in basic personality traits. Using the CNI model, two preregistered studies (N= 490) …

A major question in clinical and moral psychology concerns the nature of the commonly
presumed association between psychopathy and moral judgment. In the current …

Previous research suggests that individuals who prefer deontological over utilitarian choices
in moral dilemmas are perceived to have stronger moral character than individuals who …

Recently, researchers have proposed a polynomial model called the “consequences, norms,
generalized inaction”(CNI) model for researching moral judgment. However, it is unclear …

Whereas norm-conforming (deontological) judgments have been claimed to be rooted in
automatic emotional responses, outcome-maximizing (utilitarian) judgments are assumed to …

Drawing on moral philosophy, research in moral psychology has used hypothetical
sacrificial dilemmas to understand how moral judgments are made by laypeople. Although …

Socio-cognitive research on bilinguals points to a moral foreign-language effect (MFLE),
with more utilitarian choices (eg, sacrificing someone to save more people) for moral …

Background In the past, comparative cultural neurological studies of moral judgments have
mainly focused on Eastern and Western groups. We initially examined Japanese and …