{"pk":25427,"title":"The Effect of Probability Anchors on Moral Decision Making","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The role of probabilistic reasoning in moral decision making\nhas seen relatively little research, despite having potentially\nprofound consequences for our models of moral cognition. To\nrectify this, two experiments were undertaken in which\nparticipants were presented with moral dilemmas with\nadditional information designed to anchor judgements about\nhow likely the dilemma’s outcomes were. It was found that\nthese anchoring values significantly altered how permissible\nthe dilemmas were found when they were presented both\nexplicitly and implicitly. This was the case even for dilemmas\ntypically seen as eliciting deontological judgements.\nImplications of this finding for cognitive models of moral\ndecision making are discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cognitive science; decision making; experimental\nresearch with adult humans; moral decision making;\npsychology; reasoning; social cognition"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pv9k4bc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Brand","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London","department":""},{"first_name":"Mike","middle_name":"","last_name":"Oaksford","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25427/galley/15051/download/"}]}