How moral judgments
shift under social pressure.
A research study on whether reading a comment thread changes a moral answer, and which parts of the thread do it.
A short study of moral reasoning.
You answer a set of short moral dilemmas, each with two options. Every dilemma is paired with a closely matched one. For each pair, one version is shown cold, with no discussion. Its match is shown with a constructed comment thread above it.
By comparing your answers on the cold and the discussed versions, and your cold answers again a week later, the study measures whether the thread moves the answer and which features of it carry the effect.
Anonymous and aggregated.
Answers are stored under a random participant ID. They are not linked to your name, and are not sold. Some technical information may also be recorded to run the study.
Only aggregate results are reported, in research write-ups and in summary form on this site. Optional free-text you write may be shown anonymously to later participants as discussion material.
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