Moral Heuristics is a cognitive shortcut—a rule-of-thumb strategy—employed in moral judgment and decision-making that enables individuals to rapidly evaluate ethical dilemmas and generate morally relevant responses by simplifying complex social information, without recourse to deliberate, principle-based reasoning.
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Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment
Joshua D. Greene, Sylvia A. Morelli, Kelly Lowenberg et al. · Cognition · 2008 · 1.2K citations · Full text
People are averse to machines making moral decisions
Yochanan Bigman, Kurt Gray · Cognition · 2018 · 682 citations
The abuse of casuistry: a history of moral reasoning
Choice Reviews Online · 1988 · 556 citations
Your Morals Depend on Language
Albert Costa, Alice Foucart, Sayuri Hayakawa et al. · PLoS ONE · 2014 · 502 citations · Full text
Elizabeth S. Anderson, Charles Larmore · The Philosophical Review · 1990 · 466 citations
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Harvard University
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University of Oxford
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, United States
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States
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The University of Melbourne
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University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
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Harvard University Press
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Yale University
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