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Background and Aim: Moral psychology studies investigate cognitive and emotional systems involved in moral judgments. This research also examines the effect of emotion manipulation on reaction times to moral dilemmas. Method and Materials: This was a causal relational study executed on eighty five randomly selected 18-25 year old students from Shahid Beheshti University. To investigate moral judgment, 2 personal and impersonal moral dilemmas were administered and for emotion manipulation, 3 groups of neutral, positive and negative valence pictures were applied. This research was performed in 3 stages to evaluate moral judgment and 2 stages for emotion manipulation. To examine the results, ANOVA was done. Findings: The results showed significant differences in reaction times to personal moral dilemmas between the first and the third stages as well as between the first and the fifth ones. However, such differences were not significant for impersonal dilemmas. In addition, results revealed out that negative emotion induction, increases the reaction times toward moral dilemmas. Conclusion: It seems that the effect of environmental factors on decision making especially moral decision making is related to the kind of emotion inducted and also kinds of cognitive or emotional decisions.

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Aim and Background: How to allocate resources during development and its underlying motives provide developmental psychologists with understanding about fairness development. By age 4, children's social understanding of self and others is increased. This allows children to decide how to allocating resources towards others. As child develops considering fairness or self-interest concerns matters during allocating resources. This study aimed to examine resource allocation development in 4-6-year-old children in advantageous inequality and disadvantageous inequality conditions.

Methods and Materials: This was a correlational study with the population of all 4-6-year-olds from kindergartens in 4 region of Tehran in years 1395-1396. One hundred and two participants aged 4 (n=34, 17 girls), 5 (n=36, 18 girls) and 6 (n=32, 16 girls) were selected through a clustered sampling. Participants were asked to distribute resources in with cost-advantageous/disadvantageous and without cost-advantageous conditions.

Findings: Results showed that children more allocated resources in with cost disadvantageous condition as compared to other conditions (p<0.05). Across age groups, 4-year-old children significantly shared more resources in disadvantageous condition (p<0.05). 6-year-old girls allocated more resources when compared to boys.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that self-interest seems to be the main motives in allocating resource of 4-6-year-old children in advantageous and disadvantageous conditions. In addition, during 4-6-years of old children do not use fairness consideration in their decisions about resources.