Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: We address the questions (1) how moral decision-making can be formally modeled using established decision models and (2) which of these models are the most accurate in predicting moral judgments. We conducted an experiment with a comparison task in which people had to decide which of two companies behaved more fairly in dealing with the consequences of the current financial crisis. We modeled these judgments of fairness (i) using a compensatory weighted additive model (WADD), (ii) a unit weight linear heuristic (UWL), and (iii) a noncompensatory decision rule (LEX). All strategies could predict people's actual decisions above chance level for a majority of the subjects. This lends support to the modeling approach to moral decision-making.
Authors: Anna Coenen, Julian N. Marewski
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W387258268