Trial reportPloS one2020
Impact of uncertainty and ambiguous outcome phrasing on moral decision-making.
Trial report in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Communicating certainty via verbal probability phrases: comparing health contexts with no context.BMC primary care · 2025Trial
- What I don't know can hurt you: Collateral combat damage seems more acceptable when bystander victims are unidentified.PloS one · 2024Article
- Distinct neural networks of task engagement and choice response in moral, risky, and ambiguous decision-making: An ALE meta-analysis.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Moral judgements reflect default representations of possibility.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Contextualizing sacrificial dilemmas within Covid-19 for the study of moral judgment.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
The literature has shown that different types of moral dilemmas elicit discrepant decision patterns. The present research investigated the role of uncertainty in contributing to these decision patterns. Two studies were conducted to examine participants' choices in commonly used dilemmas. Study 1 showed that participants' perceived outcome probabilities were significantly associated with their moral choices, and that these associations were independent from the dilemma type. Study 2 revealed that participants had significantly less preference for killing the individual when the outcome probabilities were stated using the modal verb 'will' than when they were stated using the numerical phrasing of '100%'. Our findings illustrate a discord between experimenter and participant in the interpretation of task instructions.
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