Moral judgments of risky choices: A moral echoing effect

Two experiments examined moral judgments about a decision-maker’s choices when he chose a sure-thing, 400 out of 600 people will be saved, or a risk, a two-thirds probability to save everyone and a one-thirds probability to save no-one. The results establish a moral echoing effect --- a tendency to...

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Main Authors: Mary Parkinson, Ruth M. J. Byrne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2017-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/15/151023b/jdm151023b.pdf