Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good.


Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
Titre abrégé: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7505876

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 11 2019
Historique:
pubmed: 14 11 2019
medline: 23 4 2020
entrez: 14 11 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The "veil of ignorance" is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision making by denying decision makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was originally applied by philosophers and economists to foundational questions concerning the overall organization of society. Here, we apply veil-of-ignorance reasoning in a more focused way to specific moral dilemmas, all of which involve a tension between the greater good and competing moral concerns. Across 7 experiments (

Identifiants

pubmed: 31719198
pii: 1910125116
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1910125116
pmc: PMC6883824
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

23989-23995

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no competing interest.

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Auteurs

Karen Huang (K)

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; karenhuang@g.harvard.edu.
Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02163.

Joshua D Greene (JD)

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Max Bazerman (M)

Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02163.

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