Deontologists are not always trusted over utilitarians: revisiting inferences of trustworthiness from moral judgments.

ABSTRACT: Recent research has looked at how people infer the moral character of others based on how they resolve sacrificial moral dilemmas. Previous studies provide consistent evidence for the prediction that those who endorse outcome-maximizing, utilitarian judgments are disfavored in social dilemmas and are seen as less trustworthy in comparison to those who support harm-rejecting deontological judgments. However, research investigating this topic has studied a limited set of sacrificial dilemmas and did not test to what extent these effects might be moderated by specific features of the situation described in the sacrificial dilemma (for instance, whether the dilemma involves mortal or non-mortal harm). In the current manuscript, we assessed the robustness of previous findings by exploring how t

SUBMITTER: Bostyn DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9885386 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature