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RETRACTED: Beyond moral dilemmas: The role of reasoning in five categories of utilitarian judgment

2021· article· en· 6 citations· W3118584901 on OpenAlex· 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104572

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Post-publication record

Nature
Retraction
Reason
Error in Analyses;Error in Methods;Unreliable Results and/or Conclusions;
Date
7/22/2021 0:00
Flagged by OpenAlex?
Yes

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Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). The authors discovered from comments on their open data that Studies 1 and 2 of their manuscript suffered from a serious flaw. There was a mistake in the Python code they used, and the items (vignettes) were not properly randomized across conditions. In Study 1 (which investigated the effect of cognitive load on moral judgment), all participants in the Load condition received one set of items, whereas all participants in the No Load condition received a different set of items. This meant that they cannot determine whether the difference they observed between the Load and No Load conditions was due to the manipulation (Load vs. No Load) or to a simple difference between items. Given these problems, the authors cannot guarantee that the conclusions of their paper are valid. Because of this error, the authors have requested retraction of their manuscript.

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The record

Venue
Cognition
Topic
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Field
Neuroscience
Canadian institutions
Université de Montréal
Funders
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Keywords
MistakePsychologyCognitive loadSet (abstract data type)CognitionSocial psychologyCognitive psychologyComputer scienceLaw
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes