#1182 Dries Bostyn: How People Respond to Trolley Dilemmas
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Dries Boston. He's a social psychologist, statistician, and philosopher currently doing a BOF senior postdoctoral fellowship at the Social Psychology Lab at Ghent University. His primary research focus is the study of moral psychology, and today
We're going to talk mostly about trolley type moral dilemmas, sacrificial dilemmas, moral cognition, and some other related topics. So Dr. Boston, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you for having me.
Looking forward to our chat. So uh just to introduce the topic for people who might not be familiar with what we're going to talk about here, what are trolley type moral dilemmas? I mean, so there's not one official definition for the trolley type dilemmas, of course. Um, but I would say there are there are a class of moral dilemmas that the most well-known example of them is the the trolley dilemma, which is a well-known uh moral dilemma, possibly me maybe even the the most well-known dilemma. Yeah.
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