News tagged with moral intelligence

Business professor says lessons on ethics, character can prevent unethical behavior in the workplace

A Kansas State University professor's research is showing a gap between the character traits that business students say make a good executive and the traits they describe having themselves.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Want responsible robotics? Start with responsible humans

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 10




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Children perceive humanoid robot as emotional, moral being

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robot nannies could diminish child care worries for parents of young children. Equipped with alarms and monitoring capabilities to guard children from harm, a robot nanny would let parents ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How to make ethical robots

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the future according to robotics researchers, robots will likely fight our wars, care for our elderly, babysit our children, and serve and entertain us in a wide variety of situations. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 37 | with audio podcast feature

Gov't to adopt strict new limits on chimp research

(AP) -- Days in the laboratory are numbered for chimpanzees, humans' closest relative.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

What makes a thinker?

The notion of teaching people to become better thinkers is such a basic concept that most people would assume the goal has always been a vital part of educators’ tool kits.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8

Facebook-Twitter to face riot-spooked British officials

Facebook and Twitter are to meet with riot-spooked British officials to discuss how social networks can play roles in keeping people safe during civil unrest.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UNH researcher discovers research manipulated to support pro-eugenic beliefs

A University of New Hampshire researcher has discovered that a former Yale professor who espoused pro-eugenic beliefs manipulated his research findings so he could conclude that his Wisconsin home town was ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland

A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible consequences: 1 million people died and several million left ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Rhesus monkeys have a form of self awareness not previously attributed to them

In the first study of its kind in an animal species that has not passed a critical test of self-recognition, cognitive psychologist Justin J. Couchman of the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that rhesus ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Learning to love the irrational mind

In his seven years as a New York Times op-ed columnist, David Brooks has witnessed the full range of politicians’ charms. He has seen Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney memorize the first names ...

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created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sociologist examines a new American elite

Shamus Rahman Khan, an assistant sociology professor, is interested in elites. As a graduate of St. Paul’s School, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the nation, he thought that by going ...

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created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7


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