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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Revised analysis shows relational mobility predicts sacrificial behavior in Footbridge but not Switch or Loop trolley problems.

Scott Claessens, Thanos Kyritsis, Quentin D Atkinson

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In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Why moral judgements change across variations of trolley-like problems.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026
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  4. Revised analysis shows relational mobility predicts sacrificial behavior in Footbridge but not Switch or Loop trolley problems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  5. Reply to Claessens et al.: Maybe the Footbridge sacrifice is indeed the only one that sends a negative social signal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Scott ClaessensSchool of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand; scott.claessens@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3562-6981
Thanos KyritsisSchool of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
Quentin D AtkinsonSchool of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-8499-7535
University of Auckland · NZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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JudgmentMoralsHumans

Identifiers

PMID32546629
PMCPMC7306754
OpenAlexW3035428730

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.