Low Levels of Empathic Concern Predict Utilitarian Moral Judgment

Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Classic moral dilemmas are often defined by the conflict between a putatively rational response to maximize aggregate welfare (i.e., the utilitarian judgment) and an emotional aversion to harm (i.e., the non-utilitarian judgment). Here, we address two ques...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel, Young, Liane
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617220/