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Description: The online study investigates moral decisions in fictional high-stake dilemmas and uses four core scenarios with potentially lethal outcomes (assisted suicide, organ transplantation, immunodeficiency, vaccination). In each scenario either (1) a human or (2) an artificial agent decides to (a) perform a certain action or (b) refrain from it resulting in four versions of each dilemma. We aim to investigate whether actions resp. inactions of humans are judged differently than those of artificial agents and how much blame is attributed to the agent in question. We will also contrast answers of participants with different cultural backgrounds (Western European vs. Chinese). In addition, the role of personality traits, affinity for technology and attitudes towards robots will be investigated.