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Can we assume research participants accept the stipulations of vignettes?

This paper reports that moral dilemma decisions varied according to how much people seemed to believe stipulations (e.g., that intervening would actually save five people).

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500006501 #xPhi

Decisions in moral dilemmas: The influence of subjective beliefs in outcome probabilities

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · 2 weeks ago

Do neuroscientists' claims about #freeWill impact students' #ethics?

A "deterministic passage ...from Crick" sometimes reduced decisions to proactively intervene in moral thought experiments compared to a "neutral #neuroscience text".

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1748028

#xPhi #cogSci #edu

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Figure 1. "Responses showed the expected baseline patterns across dilemmas. The determinism manipulation reduced willingness to intervene in the Spur dilemma (p = 0.0385, fewer participants pulled the switch) and reduced willingness to help in the Singer scenario (p = 0.0261), but had no detectable effect on Footbridge judgments (p = 0.783)."

Free will and trolley dilemmas: evidence for moral inertia in a Venezuelan sample

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · 3 weeks ago

Another #failedReplication of a reflection test priming effect on the #sideEffectEffect: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12558

But our data above cast doubt on this paper's expectation that reflection test primes actually cause reflection (we saw *less* reflection in the test-first group).

#cogSci #xPhi #Psych

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“In addition, it is fairly reasonable to assume that confronting participants with tricky questions makes them suspicious of and more attentive to the experimental questions. Conditioned by the CRT, they will be more inclined to try to spot a trick in the scenarios. In several studies, this strategy has proven to be successful. Pinillos et al. (2011, p. 126) have shown that conditioning the participants with the CRT prompts more careful responses by demonstrating the possibility that initial gut responses may be wrong.”

Byrd 2025 Figure 3b shows that reflection test scores are actually lower in the condition in which people get a long reflection test *before* they complete other tasks (compared to when they get other tasks before the reflection test).

Does reflection reduce the epistemic side‐effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · 2 months ago

I forgot to share the #mTurk data quality result that got scooped:

“In late 2020…. Participants from the United States were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, - #CloudResearch, #Prolific, and a #university. One participant source yielded up to 18 times as many low-quality respondents as the other three.”

https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015

#psychology #philosophy #surveyMethods #quantMethods #dataScience #qualityControl

Figure 1b. Number of observations per sample,
before and after filtering for data quality (N = 460). — Figure 1b. Number of observations per sample, before and after filtering for data quality (N = 460).

Reflection-philosophy order effects and correlations across samples

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · 2 months ago

We've found recruiting people for online #research via #onlineAdvertising yielded good results on overt and covert #dataQuality measures (perhaps because participation incentives aren't financial):

Attention checks passed ≅ 2.6 out of 3

ReCAPTCHA (v3) ≅ 0.94 out of 1.0

Sample size > 5000 (from six continents)

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412525000198

#surveyMethods #cogSci #psychology #xPhi #QualityControl #econ #marketing

Analytic atheism and analytic apostasy across cultures

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · 2 months ago

Does #morality of a violation depend on your relationship to the wrongdoer?

People from #China and the #UnitedStates rated transgressions involving parents less immoral than transgressions involving a #sales person or superiors (N > 1200).

https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15081097

#ethics #xPhi

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"we investigate whether moral evaluations vary depending on the relationship between the actor and the victim. Unlike previous research that primarily adopts a third-party perspective, this study uses a first-person approach, focusing on judgments made by individuals directly involved in the moral interaction. Three empirical studies were conducted: Study 1 tests the influence of social relationships on moral judgment using Chinese participants; Study 2 explores how moral judgments differ across various moral domains in relational contexts; and Study 3 compares Chinese and American participants to assess cross-cultural differences in the impact of social relationships on moral evaluation. Across all three studies, the results consistently show that social relationships significantly affect moral judgment, supporting the view that moral evaluations are shaped not only by the nature of the act but also by the relational context in which it occurs."

Study 1: "Post hoc comparisons using Tukey’s HSD test revealed that moral transgressions involving parents were perceived as the least immoral, whereas those involving a salesperson were judged as the most immoral. The difference between these two groups was statistically significant (p < 0.001; 95% CI = [−0.97, −0.30]). No significant differences were found among the other relational contexts."

Study 2: "There was an interaction between social context and moral foundation (F(12, 2424) = 33.00; p < 0.001; partial η 2 = 0.14). The results also showed a main effect for the relational context. Post hoc comparisons using Tukey’s HSD test indicated that moral transgressions involving parents were perceived as the least immoral, whereas those involving a superior were judged as the most immoral. The difference between these two groups was statistically significant (p < 0.001; 95% CI = [−0.34, −0.13]), while no significant differences were found among the other relational contexts."

Study 3: "results from the interaction analysis indicated a significant interaction effect between social relationships and culture (F(3, 1716) = 51.88; p < 0.001; partial η 2 = 0.08). Furthermore, both the main effect of social relationships and the main effect of culture reached statistical significance. To further examine the main effect of social relationships, a post hoc analysis using Tukey’s HSD test was conducted. The findings indicated that moral transgressions involving parents were perceived as the least immoral, whereas those involving a salesperson were judged as the most immoral. The difference between these two relational contexts was statistically significant (p < 0.001; 95% CI [−0.34, −0.13]), while no significant differences were observed among the remaining relational categories."

Do Social Relationships Influence Moral Judgment? A Cross-Cultural Examination

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