A new study has found that your device of choice may influence how you make moral decisions when using it. Researchers have discovered that people who choose a smartphone over a PC are more likely to make reasonable decisions when met with a moral dilemma on their phone.
Researchers found 1,010 people and gave them a well-known moral dilemma known as “ the Trolley Problem”, where the person was forced to make a choice to save the life of one or a large group of people. Participants are told that an out of control trolley is speeding towards a group of five people that are tied to the tracks – leaving them unable to move out of the way. Here they have a lever that can be pulled to divert the trolley to another set of tracks. However, on the other tracks is another person. If they pull the lever, the five people will be saved, but the one will die. But if they do not pull the lever, the five people strapped to the tracks will be killed.What will you do?
Another case, which is said to be more personal, has the participants standing on a foot bridge next to a large man. If the participants push the man off the bridge, the train can be stopped,thus saving the five and killing the one.
The team found that participants in the large man dilemma were more likely to sacrifice the man and save five people when using a smartphone (33.5%) than when using a PC (22.3%). As a result, the study suggests that even under conditions of time pressure, people using a smartphone could make the clever decision-making. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices compared to PCs.” the researchers found.
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