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Trolley problems in context [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 Would you redirect a trolley to save five people even if it means that the trolley will run over a person on the side track? Most people say they would. Would you push that same person into the path of the trolley in order to save the five?
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Medical ethics and the trolley problem
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2019 The so-called Trolley Problem was first discussed by Philippa Foot in 1967 as a way to test moral intuitions regarding the doctrine of double effect, Kantian principles and utilitarianism. Ever since, a great number of philosophers and psychologists have
Gabriel Andrade
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Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2014 Trolley problems have been used in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments and behavior. Most of this research has focused on people from the West, with implicit assumptions that moral intuitions should generalize ...
Natalie Gold +2 more
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World Electric Vehicle JournalThe trolley problem has long posed a complex ethical challenge in the field of autonomous driving technology. By constructing a general trolley problem model, this paper demonstrates that the default loss assumption is a necessary condition for the ...
Hao Zhan, Dan Wan
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Hypothetical trolley problems are widely used to elicit moral intuitions, which are employed in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments.
Natalie eGold +2 more
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Trolley problems in context – ERRATUM
Judgment and Decision Making, 2023 Christopher Shallow +2 more
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Wording effects in moral judgments [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2010 As the study of moral judgments grows, it becomes imperative to compare results across studies in order to create unified theories within the field. These efforts are potentially undermined, however, by variations in wording used by different researchers.
Ross E. O’Hara +2 more
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Partisanship and the trolley problem: Partisan willingness to sacrifice members of the other party
Research & Politics, 2022 Do partisans view members of the other party as having lower moral status? While research shows that partisans view the out-group quite poorly, we show that affective polarization extends to expressing a willingness to sacrifice an out-partisan’s life ...
Michael Barber, Ryan Davis
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The Pandemic Doesn’t Run on Trolley Tracks: A Comment on Eyal's Essay "Beware the Trolley Zealots"
Sociologica, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic raises various ethical questions, one of which is the question of when and how countries should move from lockdown to reopening. In his paper “Beware the Trolley Zealots” (2020), Gil Eyal looks at this question, arguing against a ...
Cansu Canca
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Crews operating remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs) in military operations may be among the few that truly experience tragic dilemmas similar to the famous Trolley Problem.
Markus Christen +5 more
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