Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis

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作者
Everett, Jim A. C. [1 ]
Colombatto, Clara [2 ]
Awad, Edmond [3 ]
Boggio, Paulo [4 ]
Bos, Bjoern [5 ]
Brady, William J. [2 ]
Chawla, Megha [2 ]
Chituc, Vladimir [2 ]
Chung, Dongil [6 ]
Drupp, Moritz A. [5 ]
Goel, Srishti [2 ]
Grosskopf, Brit [3 ]
Hjorth, Frederik [7 ]
Ji, Alissa [2 ]
Kealoha, Caleb [2 ]
Kim, Judy S. [2 ]
Lin, Yangfei [3 ]
Ma, Yina [8 ,9 ]
Marechal, Michel Andre [10 ]
Mancinelli, Federico [11 ]
Mathys, Christoph [11 ,12 ,13 ,14 ]
Olsen, Asmus L. [7 ]
Pearce, Graeme [3 ]
Prosser, Annayah M. B. [15 ]
Reggev, Niv [16 ,17 ]
Sabin, Nicholas [18 ]
Senn, Julien [10 ]
Shin, Yeon Soon [2 ]
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter [19 ,20 ]
Sjastad, Hallgeir [21 ]
Strick, Madelijn [22 ]
Sul, Sunhae [23 ]
Tummers, Lars [24 ]
Turner, Monique [25 ]
Yu, Hongbo [26 ]
Zoh, Yoonseo [2 ]
Crockett, Molly J. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Kent, Sch Psychol, Canterbury, Kent, England
[2] Yale Univ, Dept Psychol, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[3] Univ Exeter, Dept Econ, Exeter, Devon, England
[4] Univ Prebiteriana Mackenzie, Social & Cognit Neurosci Lab, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[5] Univ Hamburg, Dept Econ, Hamburg, Germany
[6] Ulsan Natl Inst Sci & Technol, Dept Biomed Engn, Ulsan, South Korea
[7] Univ Copenhagen, Dept Polit Sci, Copenhagen, Denmark
[8] Beijing Normal Univ, IDG McGovern Inst Brain Res, State Key Lab Cognit Neurosci & Learning, Beijing Key Lab Brain Imaging & Connect, Beijing, Peoples R China
[9] Chinese Inst Brain Res, Beijing, Peoples R China
[10] Univ Zurich, Dept Econ, Zurich, Switzerland
[11] Scuola Int Super Avanzati SISSA, Trieste, Italy
[12] Aarhus Univ, Interacting Minds Ctr, Aarhus, Denmark
[13] Univ Zurich, Translat Neuromodeling Unit TNU, Inst Biomed Engn, Zurich, Switzerland
[14] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Zurich, Switzerland
[15] Univ Bath, Dept Psychol, Bath, Avon, England
[16] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Psychol, Beer Sheva, Israel
[17] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Zlotowski Ctr Neurosci, Beer Sheva, Israel
[18] Univ Santiago Chile, Fac Management & Econ, Dept Management, Santiago, Chile
[19] Duke Univ, Dept Philosophy, Durham, NC USA
[20] Duke Univ, Kenan Inst Eth, Durham, NC USA
[21] Norwegian Sch Econ, Dept Strategy & Management, Bergen, Norway
[22] Univ Utrecht, Dept Psychol, Utrecht, Netherlands
[23] Pusan Natl Univ, Dept Psychol, Busan, South Korea
[24] Univ Utrecht, Sch Governance, Utrecht, Netherlands
[25] Michigan State Univ, Dept Commun, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[26] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Psychol & Brain Sci, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
基金
中国国家自然科学基金; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 以色列科学基金会;
关键词
COVID-19; JUDGMENTS; INFERENCE; BEHAVIOR; VIRUS; HARM;
D O I
10.1038/s41562-021-01156-y
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Trust in leaders is central to citizen compliance with public policies. One potential determinant of trust is how leaders resolve conflicts between utilitarian and non-utilitarian ethical principles in moral dilemmas. Past research suggests that utilitarian responses to dilemmas can both erode and enhance trust in leaders: sacrificing some people to save many others ('instrumental harm') reduces trust, while maximizing the welfare of everyone equally ('impartial beneficence') may increase trust. In a multi-site experiment spanning 22 countries on six continents, participants (N = 23,929) completed self-report (N = 17,591) and behavioural (N = 12,638) measures of trust in leaders who endorsed utilitarian or non-utilitarian principles in dilemmas concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Across both the self-report and behavioural measures, endorsement of instrumental harm decreased trust, while endorsement of impartial beneficence increased trust. These results show how support for different ethical principles can impact trust in leaders, and inform effective public communication during times of global crisis.
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