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In last January's issue of Psychological Science, Maryam Kouchaki and Isaac Smith took that theory even further, proposing what they called the morning morality effect, which posits that people behave better earlier in the day.
That is, their morning morality effect would be counteracted by their circadian preferences.
Early birds did cheat more in the evening than in the morning -- as the morning morality effect predicts -- but night owls tended to cheat more in the morning.
The theory behind this "morning morality effect" is that ethical decisions are mentally taxing, and that normal daytime activities deplete our limited cognitive resources as the day goes on.
In the wake of the recent WikiDump of classified US diplomatic cables, questions over the morality, effect and mission of Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange have cut to the very core of who journalists are and the responsibility they have for the ultimate effects of the stories they publish.
The authors found that long duration (defined by waves longer than the median) play a bigger role in the morality effect than intensity while seasonality of the heat wave did not produce homogeneous result in the association with mortality.
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To have moral effects, it is not necessary that a work of literature present a system of morality.
Capital punishment has long engendered considerable debate about both its morality and its effect on criminal behaviour.
However one looks at the morality issues, the effect of drone strikes and torture is dead clear to anyone who has witnessed the aftermath: Both create endless enemies, and any tactical gain pales against greater strategic loss.
The revisionist approach treats war as morally continuous with other forms of violent conflict and therefore rejects the idea that a different morality comes into effect in conditions of war.
On this reading, Nietzsche was primarily concerned with questions of value and culture (especially the value of morality and its effect on culture), and his philosophical standpoint was acknowledged to be a deeply illiberal one: what matters are great human beings, not the "herd".
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