In three experiments (total N = 1302) we investigated whether causal proximity affects moral judgments. We manipulated causal proximity by varying the length of chains mediating between actions and outcomes, and by varying the strengths of causal …
Many actions have both an intended primary effect and unintended, but foreseen side effects. In two experiments we investigated how people morally evaluate such situations. While a negative side effect was held constant across conditions in …
Do we invest irrational amounts of effort into keeping options viable, or do we manage available and threatened options in an adaptive fashion? To ask and answer this question, we advocate an approach that considers the dynamic properties of decision …