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Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas

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2022
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Kneer, M., & Hannikainen, I. R. (2022). Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas. Cognition and Emotion, 36(1), 137–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1964940

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At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, frontline medical professionals at intensive care units around the world faced gruesome decisions about how to ration life-saving medical resources. These events provided a unique lens through which to understand how the public reasons about real-world dilemmas involving trade-offs between human lives. In three studies (total N = 2298), we examined people’s moral attitudes toward the triage of acute coronavirus patients, and found elevated support for utilitarian triage policies. These utilitari

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36

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1

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137

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153

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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English

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2022-01-02

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2021-12-30

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0269-9931

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Green

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SNSF

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PZ00P1_179912

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Reading Guilty Minds

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Kneer, M., & Hannikainen, I. R. (2022). Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas. Cognition and Emotion, 36(1), 137–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1964940

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