Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments

Name: Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments
Author: Aktaş, Büşra, Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H. G.

İsim	Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments
Yazar	Aktaş, Büşra, Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H. G.
Basım Tarihi:	2017-05
Basım Yeri	- Society for Judgment and Decision Making
Konu	Utilitarianism, Moral minimalism, Virtue ethics, Sacrificial moral dilemmas, Psychopathy, Analytic cognitive style
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1930-2975
Kayıt Numarası	c834e170-4c61-4b7b-9768-33eec69f0a76
Tarih	2017-05
Örnek Metin	The psychological correlates of utilitarian choices in sacrificial moral dilemmas are contentious. In the literature, some research (Greene, et al., 2001) suggested that utilitarianism requires analytic thinking while other research (Kahane et al., 2015) showed that utilitarianism is correlated with psychopathy. In the present research, we looked at the relation of several normative views with analytic cognitive style (ACS), psychopathy and real-world utilitarianism in three Turkish samples. In Study 1 (n = 269), we used four ethical dilemmas and asked participants to select one normative principle as the grounds for their judgment in the dilemma: fatalism, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, deontology and amoralism. The results showed that the majority selected the deontological principle. Additionally, there was a considerable amount of fatalistic and virtue ethical justifications. Utilitarianism and psychopathy had a significant positive correlation. In Study 2 (n = 246), we replicated Study 1 and showed a significant relation between ACS and moral minimalism (the view that the sacrificial act is permissible but not necessary). In Study 3, the results showed that the utilitarian option in the sacrificial dilemmas was positively correlated with both real-life utilitarianism and psychopathy, but the latter two variables were not correlated with each other. All in all, the results suggest that some people choose the utilitarian option in moral dilemmas from psychopathic tendencies (as Kahane argued), while others due to real-life utilitarian reasons (as Greene argued). The findings also indicate that virtue ethical and fatalistic justifications cannot be ignored in understanding lay people's moral judgments.
Cilt	12

Kaynağa git Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Aramaya Dön

Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Kaynağa git

Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments

Yazar Aktaş, Büşra, Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H. G.

Basım Tarihi 2017-05

Basım Yeri - Society for Judgment and Decision Making

Konu Utilitarianism, Moral minimalism, Virtue ethics, Sacrificial moral dilemmas, Psychopathy, Analytic cognitive style

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1930-2975

Kayıt Numarası c834e170-4c61-4b7b-9768-33eec69f0a76

Tarih 2017-05

Örnek Metin The psychological correlates of utilitarian choices in sacrificial moral dilemmas are contentious. In the literature, some research (Greene, et al., 2001) suggested that utilitarianism requires analytic thinking while other research (Kahane et al., 2015) showed that utilitarianism is correlated with psychopathy. In the present research, we looked at the relation of several normative views with analytic cognitive style (ACS), psychopathy and real-world utilitarianism in three Turkish samples. In Study 1 (n = 269), we used four ethical dilemmas and asked participants to select one normative principle as the grounds for their judgment in the dilemma: fatalism, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, deontology and amoralism. The results showed that the majority selected the deontological principle. Additionally, there was a considerable amount of fatalistic and virtue ethical justifications. Utilitarianism and psychopathy had a significant positive correlation. In Study 2 (n = 246), we replicated Study 1 and showed a significant relation between ACS and moral minimalism (the view that the sacrificial act is permissible but not necessary). In Study 3, the results showed that the utilitarian option in the sacrificial dilemmas was positively correlated with both real-life utilitarianism and psychopathy, but the latter two variables were not correlated with each other. All in all, the results suggest that some people choose the utilitarian option in moral dilemmas from psychopathic tendencies (as Kahane argued), while others due to real-life utilitarian reasons (as Greene argued). The findings also indicate that virtue ethical and fatalistic justifications cannot be ignored in understanding lay people's moral judgments.

Cilt 12