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Trolleys, Triage and COVID-19: The Role of Psychological Realism in Sacrificial Dilemmas

2023-02-25

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At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, frontline medical professionals at intensive care units around the world faced gruesome decisions about how to ration life-saving medical resources. These events provided a unique lens through which to understand how the public reasons about real-world dilemmas involving trade-offs between human lives. In three studies (total N = 2298), we examined people’s moral attitudes t...

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4364078

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