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Scientists have determined in a new study that people who have dual-role jobs tend to exhibit shifts in their moral integrity, without even realizing this is happening. Their moral compass is largely dictated by the actions they are undertaking at any given time.
The investigation was focused on determining how ind... |
24 May 2012
05:05 GMT |
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The same areas of the human brain that underly the larger sense of morality each of us is experiencing daily are also activated when we engage in, or are exposed to, egalitarian behaviors. This was recently demonstrated using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).The imaging technique, which analyzes how blood... |
10 April 2012
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Mass Effect 3 is the last game in the trilogy that stars Commander Shepard and seems an unlikely game to focus on major changes, but BioWare believes that one area that has seen major improvement is the morality system. Previous games from the company tended to make choices a little too clear cut, and a lot of gamer... |
2 March 2012
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When I was a younger man, I was fascinated by any classification system that could tell something about a situation by using two axis and carefully chosen data points, and I suspect that some of that fascination is seeping in and makes me love the character alignment system in King Arthur II more than I should.
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13 February 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Investigators have established in a new research that eliminating physical residues – such as when someone washes their hands – also contribute to eliminating mental residues, purifying the mind through some abstract connection.
University of Michigan (U-M) investigators saw that people who washed the... |
6 October 2011
18:11 GMT |
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A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) provides additional evidence that pro-social behavior is in fact a part of human survival. The team found that moral behavior is promoted by high, complex emotions.For centuries, religions have argued that it's only through spiri... |
8 July 2011
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A batch of fresh details about the new Rainbow Six game from Ubisoft have just appeared, saying that the tactical first person shooter will have an innovative morality system that will provide multiple choices to players through its levels and missions.Ubisoft's Rainbow Six series has always been about taking a ... |
24 June 2011
15:31 GMT |
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As people age, their responses to moral issues change, a new study shows. The research confirms that the human brain is changing its neural circuitry to underlie this transition. The new study was conducted by experts at the University of Chicago (UC).
What the team here found was that the same situations caused d... |
28 May 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Given the growing number of environmental disasters taking place around the world, experts say that it would be a really good idea to certify the right of biological communities and ecosystems to be legally represented. These areas have value beyond being of use to humans. At this point, we are used to think about su... |
23 April 2011
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A new study has surfaced which finds a limited correlation between the level of violence included in the video games that a group of children play and the viewpoints that they hold when it comes to issues of real-world violence.
Gamasutra has obtained a copy of a new study which will be published in the Journal of... |
6 April 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Investigations conducted by experts in the United States have revealed that moral corruption and power asymmetries are in fact phenomena that help maintain overall cooperation within societies. The discovery is counter-intuitive to say the least, but the experts have conclusive evidence to support their claims. The r... |
15 December 2010
09:16 GMT |
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In a recent investigation, researchers in the United States determined that people tend to perceive themselves as being more morally cleansed after actually cleaning themselves physically, through baths or showers. The finding also implies that, under these circumstances, individuals tend to judge other people and th... |
28 August 2010
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In a finding that could help explain why changing public attitudes towards obesity may be so difficult, researchers have determined that the negative attitudes many people exhibit towards people suffering from this condition may be founded in feelings of disgust. These attitudes are therefore an emotional response, a... |
27 April 2010
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers were amazed to see the effects that brain stimulation can have on a person's sense of morality. Though they hypothesized even before the work began that they might see such a result, they were quite surprised at the final conclusions. They learned that applying brai... |
30 March 2010
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The goal of offering robots a sense of morality was recently brought one step closer by researchers in Portugal and Indonesia, when they introduced a new approach on decision-making, based on computational logic. Their efforts are described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intellige... |
25 August 2009
18:31 GMT |
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In a new set of studies conducted by experts at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, a new type of brain behavior was discovered. Basically, it refers to the way people perceive opinion questions, even before they become aware of the answers that are normally a... |
27 July 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Saints – and we use this term to describe people of high moral value, who generally practice what they preach – are oftentimes considered to be incorruptible. But they too can do things that raise questions, such as adultery, extortion, deceit, and so on, and offend even the most loose-moralled individual... |
7 July 2009
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Well, even the greatest videogames have room for improvement. One year after the release of GTA IV, which was one of the best selling titles of 2008 and made it on many Game of the Year lists, Rockstar is apparently already prototyping some concepts for the next release in the series.A survey spotted by forum users s... |
6 May 2009
04:53 GMT |
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We've heard it a thousand times. Games are evil. There's considerable potential for discussion in the sentence. Games are bad. There's no questioning the fact that there are really bad games out there, just not bad in the sense that Jack Thompson would like us to believe that GTA is "bad." Games promot... |
14 March 2008
06:36 GMT |
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