Predicting moral judgments of corporate responsibility with formal decision heuristics

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_D747278021F1
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
Collection
Publications
Title
Predicting moral judgments of corporate responsibility with formal decision heuristics
Title of the conference
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Author(s)
Coenen A., Marewski J. N.
Publisher
Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society
ISBN
9781615674077
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2009
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Editor
Taatgen N. A., van Rijn H.
Pages
1524-1528
Language
english
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.
Keywords
Moral heuristics, Simple heuristics, Moral psychology, Take-the-best
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25/10/2011 15:29
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20/08/2019 16:57
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