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What I Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Collateral Combat Damage Seems More Acceptable when Bystander Victims are Unidentified

2021-10-14

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<p>Four experiments (N=1563 American mTurkers) utilized a realistic moral dilemma: a military pilot must decide whether to bomb a dangerous enemy target, also killing a bystander. Few people endorsed bombing when the bystander was an innocent civilian; however, when the bystander’s identity was unknown, more than twice as many people endorsed the bombing. Follow-up studies tested why: people tend to assume an unid...

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71bd2d9f-cfa1-5762-a5ba-fee810c0e609
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10.31234/osf.io/9etwm
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