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People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are
Why do people make deontological decisions, although they often lead to overall unfavorable outcomes? One account is receiving considerable attention: deontological judgments may signal commitment to prosociality and thus may increase people’s chances of being selected as social partners–which carri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6181327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30307977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205066 |
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author | Capraro, Valerio Sippel, Jonathan Zhao, Bonan Hornischer, Levin Savary, Morgan Terzopoulou, Zoi Faucher, Pierre Griffioen, Simone F. |
author_facet | Capraro, Valerio Sippel, Jonathan Zhao, Bonan Hornischer, Levin Savary, Morgan Terzopoulou, Zoi Faucher, Pierre Griffioen, Simone F. |
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description | Why do people make deontological decisions, although they often lead to overall unfavorable outcomes? One account is receiving considerable attention: deontological judgments may signal commitment to prosociality and thus may increase people’s chances of being selected as social partners–which carries obvious long-term benefits. Here we test this framework by experimentally exploring whether people making deontological judgments are expected to be more prosocial than those making consequentialist judgments and whether they are actually so. In line with previous studies, we identified deontological choices using the Trapdoor dilemma. Using economic games, we take two measures of general prosociality towards strangers: trustworthiness and altruism. Our results procure converging evidence for a perception gap according to which Trapdoor-deontologists are believed to be more trustworthy and more altruistic towards strangers than Trapdoor-consequentialists, but actually they are not so. These results show that deontological judgments are not universal, reliable signals of prosociality. |
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spelling | pubmed-61813272018-10-26 People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are Capraro, Valerio Sippel, Jonathan Zhao, Bonan Hornischer, Levin Savary, Morgan Terzopoulou, Zoi Faucher, Pierre Griffioen, Simone F. PLoS One Research Article Why do people make deontological decisions, although they often lead to overall unfavorable outcomes? One account is receiving considerable attention: deontological judgments may signal commitment to prosociality and thus may increase people’s chances of being selected as social partners–which carries obvious long-term benefits. Here we test this framework by experimentally exploring whether people making deontological judgments are expected to be more prosocial than those making consequentialist judgments and whether they are actually so. In line with previous studies, we identified deontological choices using the Trapdoor dilemma. Using economic games, we take two measures of general prosociality towards strangers: trustworthiness and altruism. Our results procure converging evidence for a perception gap according to which Trapdoor-deontologists are believed to be more trustworthy and more altruistic towards strangers than Trapdoor-consequentialists, but actually they are not so. These results show that deontological judgments are not universal, reliable signals of prosociality. Public Library of Science 2018-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6181327/ /pubmed/30307977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205066 Text en © 2018 Capraro et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Capraro, Valerio Sippel, Jonathan Zhao, Bonan Hornischer, Levin Savary, Morgan Terzopoulou, Zoi Faucher, Pierre Griffioen, Simone F. People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are |
title | People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are |
title_full | People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are |
title_fullStr | People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are |
title_full_unstemmed | People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are |
title_short | People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are |
title_sort | people making deontological judgments in the trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6181327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30307977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205066 |
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