Effects of childhood trauma on adult moral decision-making: clinical correlates and insights from bipolar disorder

Empirical investigations of moral psychology in the past 15 years have made substantial use of the theoretical framework known as the “dual process theory (DPT)”, proposed by Greene and colleagues (2004). DPT introduced a method to tease apart emotional and cognitive component processes in moral decision-making, known as the “moral dilemmas” paradigm. Moral dilemmas are short vignette-type scenarios which face the study pa rticipant with a difficult yes/no decision, in which both answers generally involve harm being caused to a person (or people).

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - October 5, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Emmett M. Larsen, Luz H. Ospina, Armando Cuesta-Diaz, Antonio Vian-Lains, George C. Nitzburg, Sandra Mulaimovic, Asya Latifoglu, Rosarito Clari, Katherine E. Burdick Tags: Research paper Source Type: research