In order to explore the process of ethical judgment, questionnaires have often been used by many researchers. Items of questionnaire, however, tend to be too general and abstract, and lack in concrete informations on which judgments are made. On the other hand, projective methods are also inappropriate to tap those processes that are rather conscious than unconscious. The purpose of the present study is to construct ethical situations by means of short stories and to obtain informations about the process of ethical judgments which could be done more easily in such concrete situations. Each short story has a ethical conflict in its setting, either between ethical norm, which is assumed to be internalized in every mind, and incompatible state of things, or between one ethical norm and another, both of which are present in the given situation. Subjects were asked to make judgment of the following two types on each short story. (A) Apart from you yourself, in other words, as a general rule. (B) Supposing you yourself are hero or heroin of the story. Through the following three experiments, number and type of situations used varies, but this procedure of judgment is common to all experiments. Experiment I questioned whether a ethical concept " appeal " existed, which was postulated by an author as a basic concept of his ethical theory. Some common dimensions of judgment were found among judges by using factor analysis and tentatively interpreted. Experiment II searched for the relationship between religious education and/or belief and ethical judgment. As a result, discrepancy scores between judgment A and B were larger for religious students than for non-religious students. Experiment III was designed to explore the properties of discrepancy score, its sex-difference, and the common ethical dimensions of short stories. Inspection of data suggested that two types of judgments and sex showed a significant interaction effect in several situations, and that factor patterns changed partly by the two types of judgments.