Using decisional bias as an implicit measure of moral judgment
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 21:00
in Psychology & Sociology
The act of identifying a perpetrator does not just involve memory and thinking, but also constitutes a moral decision. This is because, by the act of identifying or not identifying someone, the eyewitness runs the risk of either convicting an innocent person or letting a guilty person go free. A recently published article explores moral development in terms of children's eyewitness identification.