In "Moral Heuristics," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28(4), 531-573 (2005), Professor Cass Sunstein draws on recent … scientific literature on heuristics in judgment and decision-making to argue that heuristics play a pervasive role in moral …

With respect to questions of fact, people use heuristics - mental short-cuts, or rules of thumb, that generally work … well, but that also lead to systematic errors. People use moral heuristics too - moral short-cuts, or rules of thumb, that …