Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas

Everyone has experienced the potential discrepancy between what one judges as morally acceptable and what one actually does when a choice between alternative behaviors is to be made. The present study explores empirically whether judgment and choice of action differ when people make decisions on dil...

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Publicado: 2013
Materias:
Affective proximity
Decision making
Dilemma
Moral cognition
Utilitarianism
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spelling paper:paper_16641078_v4_nMAY_p_Tassy2023-06-08T16:25:58Z Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas Affective proximity Decision making Dilemma Moral cognition Utilitarianism Everyone has experienced the potential discrepancy between what one judges as morally acceptable and what one actually does when a choice between alternative behaviors is to be made. The present study explores empirically whether judgment and choice of action differ when people make decisions on dilemmas involving moral issues. Two hundred and forty participants evaluated 24 moral and non-moral dilemmas either by judging ("Is it acceptable to") or reporting the choice of action they would make ("Would you do"). We also investigated the influence of varying the number of people benefiting from the decision and the closeness of relationship of the decision maker with the potential victim on these two types of decision. Variations in the number of beneficiaries from the decision did not influence judgment nor choice of action. By contrast, closeness of relationship with the victim had a greater influence on the choice of action than on judgment. This differentiation between evaluative judgments and choices of action argues in favor of each of them being supported by (at least partially) different psychological processes. © 2013 Tassy, Oullier, Mancini and Wicker. 2013 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_16641078_v4_nMAY_p_Tassy http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_16641078_v4_nMAY_p_Tassy
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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collection Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA)
topic Affective proximity
Decision making
Dilemma
Moral cognition
Utilitarianism
spellingShingle Affective proximity
Decision making
Dilemma
Moral cognition
Utilitarianism
Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas
topic_facet Affective proximity
Decision making
Dilemma
Moral cognition
Utilitarianism
description Everyone has experienced the potential discrepancy between what one judges as morally acceptable and what one actually does when a choice between alternative behaviors is to be made. The present study explores empirically whether judgment and choice of action differ when people make decisions on dilemmas involving moral issues. Two hundred and forty participants evaluated 24 moral and non-moral dilemmas either by judging ("Is it acceptable to") or reporting the choice of action they would make ("Would you do"). We also investigated the influence of varying the number of people benefiting from the decision and the closeness of relationship of the decision maker with the potential victim on these two types of decision. Variations in the number of beneficiaries from the decision did not influence judgment nor choice of action. By contrast, closeness of relationship with the victim had a greater influence on the choice of action than on judgment. This differentiation between evaluative judgments and choices of action argues in favor of each of them being supported by (at least partially) different psychological processes. © 2013 Tassy, Oullier, Mancini and Wicker.
title Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas
title_short Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas
title_full Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas
title_fullStr Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas
title_full_unstemmed Discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas
title_sort discrepancies between judgment and choice of action in moral dilemmas
publishDate 2013
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_16641078_v4_nMAY_p_Tassy
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_16641078_v4_nMAY_p_Tassy
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