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Intuition and ex-post facto reasoning in moral judgment: Some experimental findings

Björklund, Fredrik LU (2004) In LPR. Lund philosophy reports 2004:1. Patterns of value. Essays on formal axiology and value analysis, vol. 2, pp 36-50. 2004:1.
Abstract
Psychological theories have traditionally assumed that moral judgment is caused by a reasoning process. This idea was challenged in two experiments. In the first participants were asked to make judgments in tasks set up to produce a conflict between intuition and reason. In the second, participants made judgments of morally questionable actions that were described either in a vividly disgusting way or in a less disgusting way, to investigate the effects on moral judgment of irrelevant disgust. Results suggest that moral judgment can be based on intuition and that reasoning may serve as ex-post facto justification of the judgment.
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LPR. Lund philosophy reports 2004:1. Patterns of value. Essays on formal axiology and value analysis, vol. 2, pp 36-50.
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15 pages
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Department of Philosophy, Lund University
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  author       = {Björklund, Fredrik},
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  series       = {LPR. Lund philosophy reports 2004:1. Patterns of value. Essays on formal axiology and value analysis, vol. 2, pp 36-50.},
  title        = {Intuition and ex-post facto reasoning in moral judgment: Some experimental findings},
  volume       = {2004:1},
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