Journal article
How stress influences our morality
- Abstract:
- All of us are stressed every now and then. There are phenomena we usually associate with stress, like health risks and feelings like fear, panic, or insecurity. But stress might also have effects we normally don’t think of; recent studies suggest it can dramatically influence our decision-making in a number of—perhaps unexpected—ways. This becomes particularly relevant in the moral context: people who are put under stress behave more compassionately in some situations, yet the opposite can be true in other situations. Why is this and what does this tell us about our morality? Maybe the comedian Tim Allen was right, when he said: “You don't know what people are really like until they’re under a lot of stress.”
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Inquisitive Mind
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- In-Mind Magazine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 23
- Publication date:
- 2014-12-31
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1877-5306
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pubs:515007
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- Inquisitive Mind
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- In-Mind Magazine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Inquisitive Mind at: [http://www.in-mind.org/article/how-stress-influences-our-morality]
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