Who could have predicted that? Likely anyone with real life experience in such situations instead of hypothetical, inconsequential what ifs. I get so weary of people saying "if I was in that situation I'd do this." Uh huh. The study showed that "faced with a real-life dilemma, the volunteers were more
consequentialist / utilitarian; that is, more willing to inflict harm
for the greater good. [...] But the most important finding [...] is that the participants’ preference for deontological vs. utilitarian
responding in their answers to the earlier battery of 10 hypothetical
moral dilemmas bore no relation to their decision in the real-life mouse
task."
Bostyn et al (2018). "Of mice, men and trolleys." Psychological Science, May 9.
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