Search for dissertations about: "moral psychology"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words moral psychology.

  2. 11. Processes of Organizational Justice : Insights into the perception and enactment of justice

    Author : Constanze Eib; Claudia Bernhard-Oettel; Magnus Sverke; Tessa Melkonian; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; organizational justice; overall justice; fairness; justice enactment; well-being; health; Demand-Control-Support; allostatic load; entrepreneurs; owner-managers; deontic justice; ego depletion; psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : Well-being at work is of major public interest, and justice at the workplace can be a key factor contributing to employees and managers feeling well. Research has found direct relationships between organizational justice perceptions and work and health outcomes. READ MORE

  4. 12. Nonhuman Moral Agency: A Practice-Focused Exploration of Moral Agency in Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Intelligence

    Author : Dorna Behdadi; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; moral agency; moral responsibility; artificial intelligence; nonhuman animal; moral psychology; practice-focused; blame; social norm; Strawson; participant stance; consciousness; moral status; moral patient; machine ethics; animal ethics;

    Abstract : Can nonhuman animals and artificial intelligence (AI) entities be attributed moral agency? The general assumption in the philosophical literature is that moral agency applies exclusively to humans since they alone possess free will or capacities required for deliberate reflection. Consequently, only humans have been taken to be eligible for ascriptions of moral responsibility in terms of, for instance, blame or praise, moral criticism, or attributions of vice and virtue. READ MORE

  5. 13. Pro-environmental travel behavior : The importance of attitudinal factors, habits, and transport policy measures

    Author : Louise Eriksson; Jörgen Garvill; Annika Nordlund; Linda Steg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; value-belief-norm theory; car habit; policy specific beliefs; car use reduction; acceptability; behavioral adaptations; travel demand management measures; transport policy measures; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to study determinants of a readiness for pro-environmental travel behavior in households. Four empirical studies were conducted examining reduction in car use (Study I), acceptability of transport policy measures (Study II and III), and behavioral adaptations in response to travel demand management (TDM) measures (Study IV). READ MORE

  6. 14. Disciplining Freedom : Treatment Dilemmas and Subjectivity at a Detention Home for Young Men

    Author : Anna Gradin Franzén; Rolf Holmqvist; Karin Aronsson; Ann Phoenix; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Discipline; self-government; subjectivity; subject positioning; forced treatment; youth; normality; morality; humor; ideological dilemmas; resistance; Disciplin; självstyrning; subjektivitet; subjektspositionering; tvångsvård; ungdom; normalitet; moral; humor; ideologiska dilemman; motstånd;

    Abstract : This ethnographic study explores treatment practices and staff-resident interaction at a detention home for young men, drawing on video recorded conversations and interviews. It investigates ideological dilemmas inherent in the institutional setting and how these produce complex subject positions to uptake, negotiate or refuse. READ MORE

  7. 15. Communities of Judgment : Towards a Teleosemantic Theory of Moral Thought and Discourse

    Author : Karl Bergman; Sharon Rider; Andrew Reisner; Marc Artiga; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ruth Millikan; teleosemantics; biosemantics; content; descriptive content; meta-semantics; meta-ethics; cognitivism; non-cognitivism; moral objectivity; moral relativism; moral disagreement; moral psychology; evolution of morality; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : This thesis offers a teleosemantic account of moral discourse and judgment. It develops a number of views about the function and content of moral judgments and the nature of moral discourse based on Ruth Millikan’s theory of intentional content and the functions of intentional attitudes. READ MORE