A spiking neuron model of moral judgment in trolley dilemmas.

ABSTRACT: People will make different moral judgments in similar moral dilemmas where one can act to sacrifice some number of lives to save several more. Research has shown that although people can reason that an action would save more lives, automatic processes can overwrite deliberate reasoning. Having participants imagine hypothetical moral dilemmas, researchers have discovered that factors such as action/omission, means/side-effect, and personal/impersonal can affect judgment. Joshua Greene suggests that these features do not affect people's judgment because they are morally relevant but are instead a result of the myopic nature of the automatic moral process. Greene hypothesizes that there is some myopic module or domain-general process that attaches a negative emotional response to an action wh

SUBMITTER: Gothard T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11408690 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature