Judging the morality of utilitarian actions: How poor utilitarian accessibility makes judges irrational.
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SUBMITTER: Kusev P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5133284 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
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Judging the morality of utilitarian actions: How poor utilitarian accessibility makes judges irrational.
Kusev Petko P van Schaik Paul P Alzahrani Shrooq S Lonigro Samantha S Purser Harry H
Psychonomic bulletin & review 20161201 6
Is it acceptable and moral to sacrifice a few people's lives to save many others? Research on moral dilemmas in psychology, experimental philosophy, and neuropsychology has shown that respondents judge utilitarian personal moral actions (footbridge dilemma) as less appropriate than equivalent utilitarian impersonal moral actions (trolley dilemma). Accordingly, theorists (e.g., Greene et al., 2001) have argued that judgments of appropriateness in personal moral dilemmas are more emotionally salie ...[more]
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