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On the Psychophysics of Morality: Moral choices obey Weber’s law

2026-06-25

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<p>Moral decisions are often cast as a conflict between utilitarianism (maximizing good) and deontology (following rules). We propose a unitary psychophysical model where moral decisions operate like other perceptual systems and track the subjective (information-theoretic) certainty that outcomes achieve the greater good. Due to psychophysical noise, decisions are governed by Weber’s law, with utilitarian and deon...

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Literature Corpus work: 2000bcc3-e3c9-57ec-9b32-757917928615
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/b58tg_v2

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