The costs of being consequentialist: Social inference from instrumental harm and impartial beneficence
Previous work has demonstrated that people are more likely to trust “deontological” agents who reject harming one person to save many others than “consequentialist” agents who endorse such instrumental harms, which could explain the higher prevalence of non-consequentialist moral intuitions. Yet con...
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Language: | English |
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Academic Press Inc.
2018
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