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Choose your answer wisely: your popularity may depend on it. New research from Oxford University shows people gauge others’ trustworthiness based on their moral judgements. The findings can help explain why snap judgements about morality tend to be based on a set of absolute moral rules (such as 'don’t kill innocent people'), even if we might make different decisions when given more time.
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Imagine that an out of control trolley is speeding towards a group of five people. You are standing on a footbridge above, next to a large man. If you push him off the bridge onto the track below, his body will stop the trolley before it hits the five people. He will die, but the five others will be saved. Should you push the man off the bridge?
Read the full article on The Conversation website, written by Jim A.C. Everett and Molly Crockett, Department of Experimental Psychology.
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