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Revisiting External Validity: Concerns about Trolley Problems and Other Sacrificial Dilemmas in Moral Psychology

Social and personality psychology compass, 2014-09, Vol.8 (9), p.536-554 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Revisiting External Validity: Concerns about Trolley Problems and Other Sacrificial Dilemmas in Moral Psychology
Author: Bauman, Christopher W. ; McGraw, A. Peter ; Bartels, Daniel M. ; Warren, Caleb
Is Part Of: Social and personality psychology compass, 2014-09, Vol.8 (9), p.536-554
Description: Sacrificial dilemmas, especially trolley problems, have rapidly become the most recognizable scientific exemplars of moral situations; they are now a familiar part of the psychological literature and are featured prominently in textbooks and the popular press. We are concerned that studies of sacrificial dilemmas may lack experimental, mundane, and psychological realism and therefore suffer from low external validity. Our apprehensions stem from three observations about trolley problems and other similar sacrificial dilemmas: (i) they are amusing rather than sobering, (ii) they are unrealistic and unrepresentative of the moral situations people encounter in the real world, and (iii) they do not elicit the same psychological processes as other moral situations. We believe it would be prudent to use more externally valid stimuli when testing descriptive theories that aim to provide comprehensive accounts of moral judgment and behavior.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1751-9004
EISSN: 1751-9004
DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12131
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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