Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Blood on the tracks - The Boston Globe

Blood on the tracks - The Boston Globe: "David Hume wrote that reason is a ``slave to the emotions.' But new research suggests that in our moral decision-making, reason and emotion duke it out within the mind."


...the results should lead us to be skeptical about our snap moral decisions, however natural and obvious they seem, as they may be very much affected by the mood we happen to be in.

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