Michał Białek and Simon J. Handley
Overriding Moral Intuitions – Does It Make Us Immoral DualProcess Theory of Higher Cognition Account for Moral Reasoning
1153 - 1156
2013
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International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/12539
https://publications.waset.org/vol/77
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Moral decisions are considered as an intuitive process,
while conscious reasoning is mostly used only to justify those
intuitions. This problem is described in few different dualprocess
theories of mind, that are being developed e.g. by Frederick and
Kahneman, Stanovich and Evans. Those theories recently evolved
into triprocess theories with a proposed process that makes ultimate
decision or allows to paraformal processing with focal bias..
Presented experiment compares the decision patterns to the
implications of those models.
In presented study participants (n179) considered different
aspects of trolley dilemma or its footbridge version and decided after
that.
Results show that in the control group 70 of people decided to
use the lever to change tracks for the running trolley, and 20 chose
to push the fat man down the tracks. In contrast, after experimental
manipulation almost no one decided to act. Also the decision time
difference between dilemmas disappeared after experimental
manipulation.
The result supports the idea of three coworking processes
intuitive (TASS), paraformal (reflective mind) and algorithmic
process.
Open Science Index 77, 2013