ABSTRACT
Individuals, who have made moral judgment deviations from the population's typical adherence to social values in their moral judgments, are usually considered as moral falling or a typical horrible environmental condition that promoted them to be persistently inculcated antisocial values, it should not be just so. Therefore, this review article aims to declare other factors that potentially cause individuals to make “moral falling” judgment, which would be stress since dealing with stress is a universal phenomenon. This review article comprehensively explores the profound yet complex relationship between stress and moral judgment. Drawing on diverse research in neuroscience, psychology, and ethics, the review elucidates how acute and chronic stress can impact decision-making and, in turn, affect moral judgments. It outlines the critical role of stress hormones and neurotransmitter systems in modulating cognitive and emotional processes integral to moral reasoning. As a result, acute and chronic stress affect decision-making differently, indirectly affecting moral judgment. While chronic stress can cause changes in the neurobiological process of the learning system and reward system, acute stress causes individuals to have more desire for rewarding and ignoring the potential lost by affecting the two systems that are involved in loss aversion.
