How Do You Take Your Tough Decisions? Discuss

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    • Publish Date: Aug 10 2018 12:21PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 10 2018 12:21PM
How Do You Take Your Tough Decisions? Discuss

This study says we reason deeply about complex moral issues, belying the popular notion that we rely on our ‘guts’ and don’t think through challenging questions on right and wrong. Do people depend on gut feeling for taking tough decisions? Not really. They think through difficult moral problems and do not primarily rely on automatic “gut” reactions to make tough decisions, finds a study.

The findings suggested that adolescents and adults reason deeply about complex moral issues, belying the popular notion that we rely on our ‘guts’ and don’t think through challenging questions on right and wrong. “When confronted with very, very hard questions about the value of life, decisions are grounded in multiple and sometimes competing considerations about harm, welfare, individual rights, fairness, and justice,” said lead author Audun Dahl, Associate Professor of psychology at the University of California in the US.

“Contrary to popular belief, people are quite able to articulate all of this when asked to justify how they arrived at their decision,” he added in the paper detailed in the journal, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. In the study, Dahl analysed moral reasoning by sharing examples of hypothetical dilemma scenarios, with 432 adolescents, college students, and other adults. In the first scenario, a train hurtling down a track was about to hit and kill five people, but a bystander could throw a switch and divert the train to another track, saving five lives. Diversion would, however, kill one person who was tied to the other track. What was the right thing to do?

In the second, five people were tied to a track. A bystander on a footbridge above the track could push one man to his death on the track, taking one life to save five others. In both situations, people recognised the value of life, they want to maximize the welfare of all. However, Dahl said that moral reasoning is more than counting lives.

“Our findings rebut the notion that adults can’t reason about moral issues,” Dahl said.


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V.J Dominic Savio Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Better to take a tough decision we can suggestion to diverse people

ishita bansal PRESENTATION CONVENT(RED FORT)

The decision one takes depends on her/his nature. guts are directly related to the nature of a person. there''s not even a single person on earth who''s life is not complicated. everyone need to go through obstacles of life and hence it is necessary to have guts to take decisions of life more confidently.

Kamalesh Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

It depends upon their mindset

Jainesh Guru Shree Shantivijai Jain Vidyalaya

Taking decision is on a person who takes up a situation and consult diverse people of different age groups which they can get a clear idea of decision. He has to take

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