Revisiting the divide between deontology and utilitarianism in moral dilemma judgment: A multinomial modeling approach.

2020 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Hennig ◽  
Mandy Hütter
Keyword(s):  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Multinomial Modeling

scholarly journals Implicit moral evaluations: A multinomial modeling approach

Cognition ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 224-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Daryl Cameron ◽  
B. Keith Payne ◽  
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ◽  
Julian A. Scheffer ◽  
Michael Inzlicht
Keyword(s):  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Multinomial Modeling

How explicit warnings reduce the truth effect: A multinomial modeling approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 103185
Author(s):  
Frank Calio ◽  
Lena Nadarevic ◽  
Jochen Musch
Keyword(s):  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Truth Effect ◽  
Multinomial Modeling

scholarly journals The Drunk Utilitarian Revisited: Does Alcohol Really Increase Utilitarianism in Moral Judgment?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariola Paruzel-Czachura ◽  
Katarzyna Pypno ◽  
Jim Albert Charlton Everett ◽  
Michal Bialek ◽  
Bertram Gawronski
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Formal Modeling ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Higher Doses ◽  
Larger Sample

The “drunk utilitarian” phenomenon suggests that people are more likely to accept harm for the greater good when they are under the influence of alcohol. This phenomenon conflicts with the ideas that (1) acceptance of pro-sacrificial harm requires inhibitory control of automatic emotional responses to the idea of causing harm and (2) alcohol impairs inhibitory control. The current preregistered experiment aimed to provide deeper insights into the effects of alcohol on moral judgments by using a formal modeling approach to disentangle three factors in moral dilemma judgments and by distinguishing between instrumental harm and impartial beneficence as two distinct dimensions of utilitarian psychology. Despite the use of a substantially larger sample and higher doses of alcohol compared to the ones in prior studies, alcohol had no significant effect on moral judgments. The results pose a challenge to the idea that alcohol increases utilitarianism in moral judgments.

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