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Beyond sacrificial harm: a two dimensional model of utilitarian decision-making
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Recent research has relied on ‘trolley’ type sacrificial moral dilemmas to study ‘utilitarian’ vs. ‘non-utilitarian’ modes of moral decision-making. This approach has generated important insights into people’s willingness to endorse instrumental harm in certain circumstances—typically, sacrificing one individual in order to save a greater number—but also has serious limitations. Most notably, it ignores the positive, altruistic core of utilitarianism, which is characterized by impartial conce...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education
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- Publisher:
- American Psychological Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Psychological Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 125
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 131-164
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-13
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1939-1471
- ISSN:
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0033-295X
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pubs:735532
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- pubs:735532
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735532
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from American Psychological Association at: 10.1037/rev0000093
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