Journal article
The costs of being consequentialist: Social inference from instrumental harm and impartial beneficence
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Previous work has demonstrated that people are more likely to trust “deontological” agents who reject harming one person to save many others than “consequentialist” agents who endorse such instrumental harms, which could explain the higher prevalence of non-consequentialist moral intuitions. Yet consequentialism involves endorsing not just instrumental harm, but also impartial beneficence, treating the well-being of every individual as equally important. In four studies (total N = 2086), we i...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Oxford Martin School
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Journal website
- Volume:
- 79
- Pages:
- 200-216
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-16
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0022-1031
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pubs:871320
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- pubs:871320
- Deposit date:
- 2018-07-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Everett et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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