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  • Moral Psychology
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • Ethics

Background:

  • The Puzzle of Moral Luck questions how moral judgments are affected by uncontrollable outcomes.
  • Philosophical and psychological assumptions posit differential treatment of morally lucky versus unlucky agents.
  • Existing theories often link blame and punishment judgments to shared psychological processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether people's moral judgments (wrongness, blame, permissibility, punishment) differ based on an agent's moral luck.
  • To assess the alignment between abstract principles and concrete judgments concerning moral luck.
  • To identify psychological mechanisms underlying moral luck effects.

Main Methods:

  • Within-subjects experiments designed to foster reflective deliberation on moral luck scenarios.
  • Between-subjects experiments to examine outcome effects on moral judgments.
  • Analysis of judgments regarding wrongness, blame, permissibility, and punishment.

Main Results:

  • In reflective conditions, participants judged lucky and unlucky agents equally on wrongness, blame, and permissibility, undermining the Puzzle of Moral Luck.
  • Punishment judgments were significantly more sensitive to outcomes than other moral judgments.
  • Outcome effects in between-subjects designs were mediated by negligence and probability ascriptions.

Conclusions:

  • Reflective moral judgments largely neutralize the effects of moral luck, challenging its philosophical significance.
  • Punishment judgments appear to stem from different psychological processes than blame, requiring qualification of Dual Process Theories.
  • Discrepancies in perceived negligence and probability explain outcome effects in non-reflective judgments.