Utilitarian ethical theories state that the morality of actions depends on their consequences. Recent work suggests that individual differences in utilitarian tendencies fall along two dimensions: a permissive attitude towards harming others for some …
Research on the neurocomputational mechanisms of moral judgment has typically focused on contrasting utilitarian preferences to impartially maximize aggregate welfare and deontological preferences that judge the morality of actions based on rules. …
How well do people know their own motives? As veridical as introspection might seem intuitively, scientists often question subjective reports on motives, deeming them biased, inaccurate, or no more revealing than inferences made by outside observers. …