Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze.

ABSTRACT: Eye gaze is a window onto cognitive processing in tasks such as spatial memory, linguistic processing, and decision making. We present evidence that information derived from eye gaze can be used to change the course of individuals' decisions, even when they are reasoning about high-level, moral issues. Previous studies have shown that when an experimenter actively controls what an individual sees the experimenter can affect simple decisions with alternatives of almost equal valence. Here we show that if an experimenter passively knows when individuals move their eyes the experimenter can change complex moral decisions. This causal effect is achieved by simply adjusting the timing of the decisions. We monitored participants' eye movements during a two-alternative forced-choice task with mor

SUBMITTER: Parnamets P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4386374 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature