Differences in moral judgment predict behavior in a Covid triage game scenario.

ABSTRACT: Moral beliefs influence decisions across many contexts, but researchers typically test how these beliefs translate into moral judgments in hypothetical dilemmas. While this is important, in this study (N = 248), we sought to extend these findings by exploring whether moral judgment (specifically utilitarian or deontological processing) predicted behavior in a commons dilemma game against other players (programmed bots) across multiple rounds in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Importantly, participants had to weigh short-term needs against long-term dangers of exhausting the community pool (i.e., a tragedy of the commons). As hypothesized, increased utilitarian processing predicted reduced resource extraction from the community pool. In addition to showing that differences in moral ju

SUBMITTER: Clarkson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9023312 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature