The conflicting interaction of belief-bias and logicality in syllogistic reasoning tasks Abstract The study conducted replicated Evans (1983) experiment to investigate the presence of believe-bias in syllogistic reasoning tasks‚ using an equal number of male and female participants to avoid gender differences in the results. The findings showed there was an interaction between believability and logicality‚ suggesting that dual-processing theories influenced the results
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have been many studies in the field of prosocial moral reasoning and on prosocial behaviours over the decade. Researchers have constantly tried to evaluate reasons behind these‚ mainly in children and adolescents. Prosocial behaviour can be defined as helping that is not motivated by professional obligations and is not based on organizations‚ other than for charities (Hewstone‚ Stroebe‚ & Jonas‚ 2007). Prosocial moral reasoning is‚ reasoning about moral dilemmas in which one person ’s needs or desires
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Cultural Relativism Introduction According to www.gotquestions.org/cultural-relavitsim‚ cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are related to the social norms and culture that one comes from. In other words‚ right and wrong or good and bad are culture-specific‚ meaning that what is reflected moral in one society may be reflected immoral in another. Therefore‚ since no collective standard of morality subsists‚ no one has the right to judge another society’s customs
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Impact of Culture on the Ethical reasoning of an Individual Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify‚ relate and assess the impact of culture on the ethical reasoning of an individual. This report reviews current literature on this topic and identifies the various factors involved in the same. Established theories on ethics and moral development are reviewed and a culture-based model of ethical decision making is derived. Prepositions concerning the influence of various cultural dimensions
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Common law reasoning and institutions Adam Gearey Wayne Morrison This subject guide was prepared for the University of London International Programmes by: Adam Gearey‚ Professor of Law‚ Birkbeck‚ University of London and Wayne Morrison‚ Professor of Law‚ Queen Mary‚ University of London Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Angela Boots and Vicky Thanapal for the preparation of Chapter 3‚ and Clare Williams‚ LLM. This is one of a series of subject guides published
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2010 Ways of Knowing and their Importance Experts such as athletes‚ musicians‚ actors‚ surgeons‚ etc. have obtained knowledge which is difficult to describe in words and by language. These other ways of knowing‚ like perception‚ reason‚ and emotion play more important roles than language in allowing these experts to perform in their respective fields by gaining knowledge which cannot be passed on by words through their senses‚ emotional inspiration‚ and reasoning. A way of knowing which is essential
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long run? A recent study conducted by Krcmar and Vieire was put into place to test whether violence on television had an effect on the moral reasoning of children‚ and why does this effect occur. Within the study‚ the researchers realized that family communication and family modeling also had a part in the structure of a child’s moral reasoning. Moral reasoning has been identified as the ability to make and offer explanations for ethical choices; perspective taking is an ability to imagine the view
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According to Frankena (1973) Socrates argued that there were three typical patterns of reasoning in moral matters. The first belief was that no one should harm to another person. The principle was if an action was to the detriment of another human then it went counter to moral reasoning. If a person killed another person for whatever cause then it cannot be justified using moral reasoning. This belief has been used by those who oppose fighting a war‚ condemning a person to death for a crime‚ or by
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Causal reasoning in financial reporting and voluntary disclosure This paper examines causal reasoning‚ applying the theories to financial reporting. Causal reasoning involves diagnosis (determining the cause of an effect) and prediction (vice versa). These are important and commonplace amongst analysts‚ investors and management regarding company earnings and share prices. However‚ there is very little recent research employing causal reasoning theories to this field. Attribution theory describes
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chart above‚ the description of mathematical reasoning ability that students acquire Adaptive learning directly based on category of PAM is as follows: -on every indicator of Adaptive mathematical reasoning‚ PAPLT better than the PAPLS and PAPLS better than the PAPLR. -on the category a high Adaptive reasoning ability PAM mathematically students acquire learning directly from the lowest to the indicator is 1‚ 3‚ 2 and 4. On the category of Adaptive reasoning abilities are PAM mathematically students
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