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The influence of personal proximity and framing on moral decision behaviour.

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Bodansky, Alexander N.
Witte, Erich H.

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It is a truism that the rationality of a decision can only be analyzed through its context and the reasons that the decider had. This approach broadens the concept of heuristics, which underlie human decision behavior. It is possible, at least for moral decisions, to deduce all relevant heuristics from basic philosophical ethical positions. This thought interloops the explanatory power from the two decision theories of Kahneman & Tverskys (2000) and Gigerenzer & Selten (2001) to a model of context dependent application of incommensurable principles. To proof this claim the classical Asian disease dilemma (ADP), used by Kahneman and Tversky in 1981 to show the framing effect, was varied by degrees of personal proximity. The ADP was understood as a dilemma with a moral context. The variation of personal proximity influenced the answer behavior and led to a disappearance of the framing effect at interindividual proximity. The main reasons accounted for answering the ADP were of utilitarian and deontological nature. With increasing proximity hedonistic reasons became more important while utilitarian reasons diminished. Different framings were accompanied by different importance of intuitionism.

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Wahlverhalten Frame Moral Ethik Heuristiken Entscheidungsfindung Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung Hedonismus Intuition Wahlverhalten Framing-Effekte Moral Ethik Heuristiken Entscheidungsfindung Interpersonelle Beziehungen Hedonismus Intuition personal proximity framing effect moral decision processes protected values Asian disease dilemma

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2008

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Hamburger Forschungsberichte zur Sozialpsychologie;84

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  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Bodansky, Alexander N.
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Witte, Erich H.
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-11-17T11:08:30Z
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    2008-12-01
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  • Made available on
    2022-11-17T11:08:30Z
  • Date of first publication
    2008
  • Abstract / Description
    It is a truism that the rationality of a decision can only be analyzed through its context and the reasons that the decider had. This approach broadens the concept of heuristics, which underlie human decision behavior. It is possible, at least for moral decisions, to deduce all relevant heuristics from basic philosophical ethical positions. This thought interloops the explanatory power from the two decision theories of Kahneman & Tverskys (2000) and Gigerenzer & Selten (2001) to a model of context dependent application of incommensurable principles. To proof this claim the classical Asian disease dilemma (ADP), used by Kahneman and Tversky in 1981 to show the framing effect, was varied by degrees of personal proximity. The ADP was understood as a dilemma with a moral context. The variation of personal proximity influenced the answer behavior and led to a disappearance of the framing effect at interindividual proximity. The main reasons accounted for answering the ADP were of utilitarian and deontological nature. With increasing proximity hedonistic reasons became more important while utilitarian reasons diminished. Different framings were accompanied by different importance of intuitionism.
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-23474
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/527
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.9175
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Is part of series
    Hamburger Forschungsberichte zur Sozialpsychologie;84
  • Keyword(s)
    Wahlverhalten
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  • Keyword(s)
    Frame
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  • Keyword(s)
    Moral
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  • Keyword(s)
    Ethik
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  • Keyword(s)
    Heuristiken
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  • Keyword(s)
    Entscheidungsfindung
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  • Keyword(s)
    Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
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  • Keyword(s)
    Hedonismus
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  • Keyword(s)
    Intuition
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  • Keyword(s)
    Wahlverhalten
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  • Keyword(s)
    Framing-Effekte
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  • Keyword(s)
    Moral
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  • Keyword(s)
    Ethik
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  • Keyword(s)
    Heuristiken
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  • Keyword(s)
    Entscheidungsfindung
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  • Keyword(s)
    Interpersonelle Beziehungen
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  • Keyword(s)
    Hedonismus
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  • Keyword(s)
    Intuition
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  • Keyword(s)
    personal proximity
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  • Keyword(s)
    framing effect
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  • Keyword(s)
    moral
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  • Keyword(s)
    decision processes
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  • Keyword(s)
    protected values
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  • Keyword(s)
    Asian disease dilemma
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    The influence of personal proximity and framing on moral decision behaviour.
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    report
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