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Sidetracked by trolleys: Why sacrificial moral dilemmas tell us little (or nothing) about utilitarian judgment.
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Research into moral decision-making has been dominated by sacrificial dilemmas where, in order to save several lives, it is necessary to sacrifice the life of another person. It is widely assumed that these dilemmas draw a sharp contrast between utilitarian and deontological approaches to morality, and thereby enable us to study the psychological and neural basis of utilitarian judgment. However, it has been previously shown that some sacrificial dilemmas fail to present a genuine contrast be...
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- 10.1080/17470919.2015.1023400
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- Routledge
- Journal:
- Social neuroscience More from this journal
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 551-560
- Publication date:
- 2015-10-01
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1747-0927
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1747-0919
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English
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pubs:514698
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2015-11-28
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- Guy Kahanea
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor and Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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