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An Experimental Investigation of Emotions and Reasoning in the Trolley Problem
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An Experimental Investigation of Emotions and Reasoning in the Trolley Problem
Alessandro Lanteri1, 2 , Chiara Chelini3 and Salvatore Rizzello4 
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Department of Economic Science and Quantitative Methods (SEMeQ), Faculty of Economics, University of Eastern Piedmont at Novara, via Perrone 18, Novara, 28100, Italy |
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Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE), Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, P. O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Department of Economics, Turin University, via Po 53, Torino, 10124, Italy |
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Department of Legal and Economic Science, Faculty of Law, University of Eastern Piedmont at Alessandria, via Mondovi 6-10, Alessandria, 15100, Italy |
Received: 20 July 2007 Accepted: 7 January 2008 Published online: 1 February 2008
Abstract Elaborating on the notions that humans possess different modalities of decision-making and that these are often influenced
by moral considerations, we conducted an experimental investigation of the Trolley Problem. We presented the participants
with two standard scenarios (‹lever’ and ‹stranger’) either in the usual or in reversed order. We observe that responses to
the lever scenario, which result from (moral) reasoning, are affected by our manipulation; whereas responses to the stranger
scenario, triggered by moral emotions, are unaffected. Furthermore, when asked to express general moral opinions on the themes
of the Trolley Problem, about half of the participants reveal some inconsistency with the responses they had previously given.
Keywords experiments - intuition - moral emotions - moral judgement - moral reasoning - trolley problem
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