Spears, D, Fernández-Linsenbarth, I, Okan, Y orcid.org/0000-0001-7963-1363 et al. (2 more authors) (2018) Disfluent fonts lead to more utilitarian decisions in moral dilemmas. Psicológica, 39 (1). pp. 41-63. ISSN 0211-2159
Abstract
Previous research suggests that utilitarian decisions to moral dilemmas often stem from analytic, controlled cognitive processes. Furthermore, processing disfluency can trigger analytic thinking and improve performance on tasks that require logic and cognitive reflection. In the present study we investigated how processing fluency affects the readiness with which people give utilitarian responses to both personal and impersonal dilemmas. Participants were presented in two different experimental blocks with dilemmas written in both easy- (fluent) and hard-to-read (disfluent) fonts. We expected that dilemmas written in a disfluent font would be associated with more utilitarian responses. Results supported this prediction, albeit only when the disfluent dilemmas appeared first, showing that participants endorsed more utilitarian actions in the disfluent condition than in the fluent condition across dilemma types. These data suggest that increasing processing disfluency by manipulating the font affects decisions in the moral domain.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 (Spears, Fernández-Linsenbarth, Okan, Ruz, & González) This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Decision Research (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2019 11:15 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2019 11:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Universidad de Valencia. Departamento de Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento |
Identification Number: | 10.2478/psicolj-2018-0003 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141738 |
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