![]() ![]() ![]() The level of relationship between the human shifted six times (foreign tourist, hometown stranger, distant cousin, best friend, grandparent, and sibling), while relationship to the pet had two levels (your pet, someone else’s pet). ![]() To save humans or pets from imminent death. Participants (n = 573) were given moral dilemmas and forced to decide whether The past research on moral decision-making, the current study presented a novel approach to exploring moral decision-making by forcing participants to choose to save the life between biological family and psychological-kin. Oftentimes, people consider their pets as part of their family. Family selection may help explain moral judgments. However, when further probed about their decisions, moral dumbfounding often occurs. Past research has shown that when presented with personal dilemmas, individuals showed greater brain activity in the hot system areas. Neuroscientific studies indicate moral cognition involves a cognitive struggle between two systems in the brain: the emotional “hot” system and the rational “cold” system. ![]()
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