Why does the Cognitive Reflection Test (sometimes) predict utilitarian moral judgment (and other things)?

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 265-284

  Baron, Jonathan ^a   Scott, Sydney ^a   Fincher, Katrina ^a   Emlen Metz, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actively open minded thinking; Belief bias; Cognitive reflection test; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938493865     PISSN: 22113681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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