Intuition and Emotion in Moral Decision-Making: Empirical Research and Normative Implications

Theoretical and empirical research about new findings in moral psychology and moral neuroscience.

Researchers and partners

Behavioural and Social Sciences, Psychology

• dr. S. (Stephan) Schleim, Theory and History of Psychology
• Felix Schirmann (2010-2014), Theory and History of Psychology

Partners outside of the University of Groningen

• Birte Engelich, Social Psychology, University of Cologne
• Guy Kahane, Philosophy, University of Oxford

Education

Courses connected to this project

• Theory of Science
• Philosophy of Psychology

Results

Publications

• Schleim, S. (2015). The half-life of the moral dilemma task – a case study in experimental (neuro-) philosophy. In: J. Clausen & N. Levy (eds.), Handbook of Neuroethics, pp. 185-199. Springer, Berlin.
• Schirmann, F. (2014). The neuropathology of morality: Germany 1930 – 1960. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 23(1), 56-74.
• Schirmann, F. (2013). Badness, madness and the brain – the late 19th-century controversy on immoral persons and their malfunctioning brains. History of the Human Sciences, 26(2), 33-50.
• Schleim, S. & Schirmann, F. (2011). Philosophical Implications and Multidisciplinary Challenges of Moral Physiology. Trames–Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 15, 127-146.

Successful grant proposals and other achievements

• VolkswagenFoundation "Intuition and Emotion in Moral Decision-Making: Empirical Research and Normative Implications" (2010-2015)
• Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize for Felix Schirmann's dissertation "The Good, the Bad, and the Brain: Theory and History of the Neuroscience of Morality" 2015