Social Psychology

How evaluability bias shapes transformative decisions

Our paper contributes to the rapidly expanding body of experimental research on transformative decision making, and in the process, marks out a novel empirical interpretation for assessments of subjective value in transformative contexts. We start …

Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis.

Trust in leaders is central to citizen compliance with public policies. One potential determinant of trust is how leaders resolve conflicts between utilitarian and non-utilitarian ethical principles in moral dilemmas. Past research suggests that …

Theories of distributive justice highlight different approaches for how people ought to allocate scarce resources. End-result principles advocate strict equality of outcomes while historical principles allow for some inequality depending on how it …