Many scientists are cynical about moral reasoning. They claim that humans do not reason about right and wrong to improve their moral perspectives, they do so to justify themselves to others.

For decades, the Turing Test—named after its creator, computing legend Alan Turing—was a simple test designed to measure the ability of a program to mimic a human. In the age of large language ...

In "Attributions toward artificial agents in a modified Moral Turing Test"—which was recently ... originally designed to evaluate the moral reasoning of psychopaths. These scenarios ranged ...

“Consumers demand that they take a stand, and we want them to engage in a high level of moral reasoning to do it well––to have ... in the online experiment were given the Defining Issues Test (DIT)––a ...

"We aimed to investigate whether the stage of moral reasoning is reflected in structural brain architecture." A total of 67 MBA students were administered the Defining Issue Test to determine ...

Titled (yes) ‘Does moral action depend on reasoning?’, the booklet features essays by 13 scientists and scholars. Here’s what a few had to say in reply to the question. ‘Not really ...

They discovered that a general network of brain regions was involved in judging moral violations, like cheating on a test, in contrast ... a pluralist view of moral reasoning.

"To the extent that moral reasoning is at least partly rooted in ... The researchers borrowed the paradigm of philosophy's trolley problem to test the influence of the hormone testosterone on ...