Date created: | Last Updated:

Category: Project

Description: In the past 15 years, a lot of research in moral psychology has focused on the opposition between deontological and utilitarian moral judgment, often concluding that deontological judgments are emotion-driven while utilitarian judgments come from higher-order reasoning. However, these research have only investigated the deontological/utilitarian divide by focusing on sacrificial dilemmas (e.g. trolley problems) in which one person is sacrificed to save many. In this project, our aim is twofold. First, we want to create a list of scenarios that will pit deontological and utilitarian moral judgments against each other in contexts that are not sacrificial dilemmas. Second, using this list of scenarios, we want to determine whether some key findings about the deontological/utiltiarian divide extend and generalize beyond the mere case of sacrificial dilemmas.