eprintid: 45480 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/04/54/80 datestamp: 2023-04-05 11:36:57 lastmod: 2024-04-22 06:49:35 status_changed: 2023-04-05 11:36:57 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Bago, Bence creators_name: Kovacs, Marton creators_name: Protzko, John creators_name: Nagy, Tamas creators_id: bence.bago@iast.fr creators_idrefppn: 229784178 creators_halaffid: 506116 title: Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: The study of moral judgements often centres on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (that is, emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (that is, following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychological and situational factors (for example, the intent of the agent or the presence of physical contact between the agent and the victim) can play an important role in moral dilemma judgements (for example, the trolley problem). Our knowledge is limited concerning both the universality of these effects outside the United States and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors affecting moral judgements. Thus, we empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements by replicating the experiments of Greene et al. in 45 countries from all inhabited continents. We found that personal force and its interaction with intention exert influence on moral judgements in the US and Western cultural clusters, replicating and expanding the original findings. Moreover, the personal force effect was present in all cultural clusters, suggesting it is culturally universal. The evidence for the cultural universality of the interaction effect was inconclusive in the Eastern and Southern cultural clusters (depending on exclusion criteria). We found no strong association between collectivism/individualism and moral dilemma judgements. date: 2022-04-14 date_type: published publisher: Springer id_number: 10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5 official_url: http://iast.fr/pub/126985 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: FALSE doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5 view_date_year: 2022 full_text_status: none publication: Nature Human Behaviour volume: vol. 6 place_of_pub: Londre pagerange: 880-895 refereed: TRUE issn: 2397-3374 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:126985 harvester_local_overwrite: date harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: note harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_id harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: pagerange harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub oai_lastmod: 2023-01-10T08:47:23Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 citation: Bago, Bence , Kovacs, Marton, Protzko, John and Nagy, Tamas (2022) Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 6. pp. 880-895.