Trial reportPloS one2016
Virtual Morality: Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action?
Trial report in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 29 papers.
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Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed.
- Digital bioethics: exploring an emerging field.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2026Article
- Morality on the road: the ADC model in low-stakes traffic vignettes.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Moral dilemmas in virtual reality: a narrative review of findings and methodological challenges.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Willingness to take responsibility: Self-sacrifice versus sacrificing others in takeover decisions during autonomous driving.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Do Moral Judgments in Moral Dilemmas Make One More Inclined to Choose a Medical Degree?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Autonomous Vehicles Enabled by the Integration of IoT, Edge Intelligence, 5G, and Blockchain.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- How German and Italian Laypeople Reason about Distributive Shortages during COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Moral judgment, decision times and emotional salience of a new developed set of sacrificial manual driving dilemmas.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC).Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Hunt-Vitell's General Theory of Marketing Ethics Predicts "Attitude-Behaviour" Gap in Pro-environmental Domain.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Pretensive Shared Reality: From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Moral reasoning, moral decision-making, and empathy in Korsakoff's syndrome.Journal of neuropsychology · 2021Article
- Physical Presence during Moral Action in Immersive Virtual Reality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Design Bioethics: A Theoretical Framework and Argument for Innovation in Bioethics Research.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2021Article
- Trolley dilemma in the sky: Context matters when civilians and cadets make remotely piloted aircraft decisions.PloS one · 2021Article
- Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Ethical Issues with Simulating the Bridge Problem in VR.Science and engineering ethics · 2020Article
- Hunger Bias or Gut Instinct? Responses to Judgments of Harm Depending on Visceral State Versus Intuitive Decision-Making.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- When Push Comes to Shove-The Moral Fiction of Reason-Based Situational Control and the Embodied Nature of Judgment.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making.Psychopharmacology · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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7 authors.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The nature of moral action versus moral judgment has been extensively debated in numerous disciplines. We introduce Virtual Reality (VR) moral paradigms examining the action individuals take in a high emotionally arousing, direct action-focused, moral scenario. In two studies involving qualitatively different populations, we found a greater endorsement of utilitarian responses-killing one in order to save many others-when action was required in moral virtual dilemmas compared to their judgment counterparts. Heart rate in virtual moral dilemmas was significantly increased when compared to both judgment counterparts and control virtual tasks. Our research suggests that moral action may be viewed as an independent construct to moral judgment, with VR methods delivering new prospects for investigating and assessing moral behaviour.
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