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Description: In this last step, our goal is to use the stimuli developed in the prior steps of our project to investigate the role of reflection in utilitarian judgments, outside of the particular case of moral dilemmas. To this end, we will use three experimental paradigms that manipulate reflection to make participants' judgments more or less utilitarian: 1) Cognitive load makes people less utilitarian (Conway & Gawronski, 2013) 2) Time pressure makes people less utilitarian (Suter & Hertwig, 2011) 3) Exposure to the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) makes people more utilitarian (Paxton, Ungar & Greene, 2012) REFERENCES *Conway, P., & Gawronski, B. (2013). Deontological and utilitarian inclinations in moral decision making: a process dissociation approach. Journal of personality and social psychology, 104(2), 216. *Paxton, J. M., Ungar, L., & Greene, J. D. (2012). Reflection and reasoning in moral judgment. Cognitive Science, 36(1), 163-177. *Suter, R. S., & Hertwig, R. (2011). Time and moral judgment. Cognition, 119(3), 454-458.