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© 2021 Winking, Koster. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

[...]the third factor, which is evident in both the traditional and the footbridge scenario, is the fact that the bystander must act in order to bring about the utilitarian solution, as opposed to simply allowing for the utilitarian solution to come about naturally (omission bias) [8–11]. [...]according the dual process theory of moral reasoning, utilitarian moral reasoning is achieved by a deliberative, calculated, and cognitively costly manner of thinking, whereas deontological moral reasoning is governed by more automatic, emotional thinking [20,21]. [...]factors that facilitate costly and purposeful cognition tend to increase utilitarian reasoning, whereas those that hinder it are associated with deontological reasoning [22]. [...]researchers have found that notions of social connectedness tend to induce utilitarian moral reasoning, with participants being more willing to act to sacrifice one in order to save five when the actors in the scenarios are imagined to be relatives or in-group members [11,26,27]. [...]there are ad hoc sociocultural factors whose influences are unknown because they are impossible to investigate among WEIRD populations or because they are simply unique to a particular culture.

Details

Title
Small-scale utilitarianism: High acceptance of utilitarian solutions to Trolley Problems among a horticultural population in Nicaragua
Author
Winking, Jeffrey; Koster, Jeremy
First page
e0249345
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Apr 2021
Publisher
Public Library of Science
e-ISSN
19326203
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2508879368
Copyright
© 2021 Winking, Koster. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.