Can You Solve This Dilemma?

2015-08-14

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REFERENCES

The trolley problem

Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment.Science, 293(5537), 2105-2108. http://nwkpsych.rutgers.edu/~kharber/gradseminar/readings/class%204%20readings/Science%202001%20Greene.pdf

Greene, J. D. (2011). Emotion and morality: A tasting menu. Emot Rev, 3, 1-3. http://ejournal.narotama.ac.id/files/Emotion%20and%20Morality%20-%20A%20Tasting%20Menu.pdf

Bauman, C. W., McGraw, A. P., Bartels, D. M., & Warren, C. (2014). Revisiting external validity: Concerns about trolley problems and other sacrificial dilemmas in moral psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(9), 536-554. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j0215cr

Skulmowski, A., Bunge, A., Kaspar, K., & Pipa, G. (2014). Forced-choice decision-making in modified trolley dilemma situations: a virtual reality and eye tracking study. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 8. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00426/full

Bauman, C. W., McGraw, A. P., Bartels, D. M., & Warren, C. (2014). Revisiting external validity: Concerns about trolley problems and other sacrificial dilemmas in moral psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(9), 536-554. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j0215cr

Moral judgements

Koster-Hale, J., Saxe, R., Dungan, J., & Young, L. L. (2013). Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(14), 5648-5653. http://moralitylab.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Koster-Hale2013.pdf (I didn’t have time to mention this one, but it’s very interesting)

Moral rationalism

Doyle, J. (2000). Moral Rationalism and Moral Commitment. Philosophical and Phenomenological Research, 1-22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2653425?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Moral sense theory

Wilson, J. Q. (1993). The moral sense. American Political Science Review,87(01), 1-11. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2707637?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-sentimentalism/

Psychopaths

Dutton, K. (2012). The wisdom of psychopaths: What saints, spies, and serial killers can teach us about success. Macmillan. https://books.google.com/books?id=UknwiXRxdSIC&lpg=PP3&ots=30_luzuXUJ&dq=the%20wisdom%20of%20psychopaths&lr&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q=the%20wisdom%20of%20psychopaths&f=false