Hot utilitarianism and cold deontology: Insights from a response patterns approach to sacrificial and real world dilemmas
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13 mars 2020
- 10261/203838
- doi: 10.1080/17470919.2018.1464945
- issn: 1747-0919
- Social Neuroscience 14: 125- 135 (2019)
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Alejandro Rosas et al., « Hot utilitarianism and cold deontology: Insights from a response patterns approach to sacrificial and real world dilemmas », Digital.CSIC (SHS), ID : 10.1080/17470919.2018.1464945
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Research on moral judgment with moral dilemmas suggests that ¿utilitarian¿ responses (UR) to sacrificial high-conflict dilemmas are due to decreased harm aversion, not only in individuals with clinical conditions, but also in healthy participants with high scores in antisocial personality traits. We investigated the patterns of responses to different dilemma types in healthy participants and present evidence that some URs to sacrificial dilemmas are morally motivated, as indicated by their empathic concern (EC) or primary psychopathy (PP) scores. In study 1 (N = 230) we tested students with four categories of sacrificial dilemmas featuring innocent victims. In study 2 (N = 590) we tested students with two categories of sacrificial dilemmas and two ¿real-world¿ moral dilemmas, where the agent can improve the lot of strangers by making a personal sacrifice. Results in both studies showed no decreased harm aversion in a pattern where the only UR is to the sacrificial dilemma where the number of saved people is very high, and significantly lower harm aversion only in the pattern of all-deontological respondents in Study 2. The analysis by response patterns allowed a better discrimination of the moral motivations of participants and showed that at least some of them express moral concerns in their URs.