Brief Moral Decision-Making Questionnaire: A Rasch-derived short form of the Greene dilemmas.

Abstract

In this study, we developed the Brief Moral Decision-Making Questionnaire (BrMoD) as a standardized brief form of the dilemmas compiled by Greene and colleagues (Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley, & Cohen, 2001). An initial Rasch analysis was conducted over responses to 60 dilemmas to retain the most appropriate items. The psychometric properties of the 32-item brief instrument were determined in a community sample of 133 individuals using analyses from both the Rasch model and the classical test theory. The BrMoD scores showed appropriate reliability and construct validity. Differences between dilemma categories proposed by Greene et al. were observed in the BrMoD by measuring the difficulty of decisions and response times of the participants. In addition, there was no differential item functioning by the demographic variables. Therefore, the BrMoD is a good tool for assessing moral decision making in research or professional fields.

Urgent decision-making in extreme circumstances: Associations with cognitive reflection and with responses to moral dilemmas

“…. The BrMoD-30 is a Spanish version and adaptation of the BrMoD questionnaire (Carmona-Perera et al, 2015), consisting of a selection of the moral dilemmas of Greene et al (2001). We used eight non-moral dilemmas of BrMoD-30 to indicate logical reasoning capacity and ten high-conflict personal moral dilemmas to evaluate the utilitarian and non-utilitarian (i.e., deontological) response to the dilemmas.…”

“…So far, the relation between decision making and moral dilemmas has received much attention since the seminal work by Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley, and Cohen (2001). In empirical research, moral judgment is challenged by means of moral dilemma, which could be classified into non-moral, impersonal-moral, and personal moral dilemmas (Carmona-Perera, Caracuel, Pérez-García, & Verdejo-García, 2015;Greene et al, 2001;Koenigs et al, 2007). In personal moral dilemmas, individuals could make the decision to physically harm individuals or groups in order to save as many people as possible, which could involve emotional conflicts (Greene et al, 2001).…”

“…In personal moral dilemmas, individuals could make the decision to physically harm individuals or groups in order to save as many people as possible, which could involve emotional conflicts (Greene et al, 2001). Personal moral dilemmas are classified into low-and high-conflict dilemmas, based on the reaction times and consensus (Carmona-Perera et al, 2015). Specifically, responses to high-conflict personal moral dilemmas are distinguished by lower consensus among individuals and longer reaction time than the other dilemmas (Greene, Nystrom, Engell, Darley, & Cohen, 2004).…”

“Me” versus “We” in moral dilemmas: Group composition and social influence effects on group utilitarianism

“…Utilitarian choices maximize gains and minimize losses independent of what is prescribed through social conventions, and thus, are an indicator of decision rationality. Deontological choices, reflect the morality of an alternative or the way in which a choice complies to moral norms and conventions, irrespective of the gains or losses associated with it (Carmona‐Perera, Caracuel, Perez‐Garcia, & Verdejo‐Garcia, 2015; Conway & Gawronski, 2013). Typical tasks used in research on moral decisions are formulated as moral dilemmas in which one has to choose on whether to break social norms (and even cause some degree of harm) in order to minimize losses or to obey social norms and maximize losses (Foot, 1967; Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley, & Cohen, 2001).…”

A Game Mechanism of Individual Value Decision-Making Based on SVO Differences

“…Research on crisis environment mainly focuses on social dilemma [18] and moral dilemma [19,20]. eoretically, the structure of self-moral or nonself-moral dilemma [21] and high-low conflict moral dilemma [22] are divided. In practice, the "dilemma teaching method" is adopted for moral education [23][24][25], and the "Bohr model" [26] and the "Kidder model" [27] are proposed for ethical dilemma choice mode.…”