Question

Joshua Greene presented people with the "trolley dilemma" and asked them to make a moral decision (e.g., Is it appropriate to let one person die in order to save five people?). He found that:________.

Answer 1

Answer:

The responses were based on the respondent's emotions.

Explanation:

Psychology usually involves the study of human behaviour looking deep down to see the factors that influence their decision or behaviour.

On such factor that affect people's decisions is human emotions.

From his observations he discovered that impersonal decisions utilises brain regions that supports controlled reasoning.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is: We tend to censor harmful actions that involve the application of force personally.

Explanation:

According to his work, Joshua Greene realized that we tend to censor harmful actions that involve the application of force personally. For example, we see worse to push a person than to actuate a trapdoor so that it falls to the road. It also seems worse to us that the damage is a means to an end, such as pushing that person to stop the train, not an unforeseen consequence, as if we make him fall when he trips over it on the way to the lever.

The answer is: We tend to censor harmful actions that involve the application of force personally.