Ethically, it is debatable whether we may program autonomous systems (AS) to actively impose harm on some to avoid greater harm for others. Responses to surveys on ethical dilemmas in the programming of self-driving cars have shown that people favor to impose harm on some people to save others...

Ethics is a field in which the gap between words and actions looms large. Game theory and the empirical methods it inspires look at behavior instead of the lip service people sometimes pay to norms. We believe that this special issue comprises several illustrations of the fruitful application of...

Hypocrisy is the act of claiming moral standards to which one's own behavior does not conform. Instances of hypocrisy, such as the supposedly green furnishing group IKEA's selling of furniture made from illegally felled wood, are frequently reported in the media. In a controlled and incentivized...

Moral luck means that an actor is morally praised or blamed for an action whose outcome she could not influence. We investigate the importance of this phenomenon in the realm of investments that are increasingly subject to ethical evaluation. We use an online experiment to examine whether...