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Description: This registry contains the supplementary materials (materials and data) for: Cova, F. (in press). What happened to the trolley problem? Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. It also contains figures representing several variations on the Trolley Problem. Feel free to use these figures in research papers and teaching materials, as long as the original paper is cited. In this paper, I provide an overview of the Trolley Problem: its philosophical origins and its different uses in the field of moral psychology. I argue that, despite its popularity and widespread utilization in psychological research, few researches actually tried to directly solve it, and that we are still ignorant of the real factors guiding our responses to Trolley cases. Against the idea that Trolley Problems were just a fad, a speculative bubble doomed to burst, I try by the present paper to rekindle researchers’ interest in investigating the sources of our intuitions in Trolley cases.