How Formal Models Can Illuminate Mechanisms of Moral Judgment and Decision Making

The cognitive and affective processes that give rise to moral judgments and decisions have long been the focus of intense study. Here, I review recent work that has used mathematical models to formally describe how features of moral dilemmas are transformed into decisions. Formal models have traditi...

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Published in:Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society 2016-04, Vol.25 (2), p.85-90
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