TY - JOUR A1 - Krügel, Sebastian A1 - Uhl, Matthias A1 - Balcombe, Bryn T1 - Automated vehicles and the morality of post-collision behavior JF - Ethics and Information Technology N2 - We address the considerations of the European Commission Expert Group on the ethics of connected and automated vehicles regarding data provision in the event of collisions. While human drivers’ appropriate post-collision behavior is clearly defined, regulations for automated driving do not provide for collision detection. We agree it is important to systematically incorporate citizens’ intuitions into the discourse on the ethics of automated vehicles. Therefore, we investigate whether people expect automated vehicles to behave like humans after an accident, even if this behavior does not directly affect the consequences of the accident. We find that appropriate post-collision behavior substantially influences people’s evaluation of the underlying crash scenario. Moreover, people clearly think that automated vehicles can and should record the accident, stop at the site, and call the police. They are even willing to pay for technological features that enable post-collision behavior. Our study might begin a research program on post-collision behavior, enriching the empirically informed study of automated driving ethics that so far exclusively focuses on pre-collision behavior. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09607-w KW - Post-collision behavior KW - Detection of accidents KW - Accident data KW - Trolley KW - Experiment Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09607-w UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-10987 SN - 1572-8439 VL - 23 IS - 4 SP - 691 EP - 701 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Max, Raphael A1 - Uhl, Matthias T1 - Moral luck in investment contexts: We consciously find unprofitable investments less moral JF - PLOS ONE N2 - Moral luck refers to whether an actor is morally praised or blamed for an action whose outcome they could not influence. In two studies, we investigated the behavioral importance of this phenomenon in the realm of investments, which has become increasingly subject to ethical evaluations. In our first online experiment, we examined whether people’s moral evaluation of an investment decision depended on its arbitrary outcome and whether their interpretation of the nature of the decision was driven by this outcome. Our results showed that profitable investments were considered more moral than unprofitable investments. Moreover, profitable investments were labeled “investments” instead of “speculation” or “gambling” more often than unprofitable ones. In our second study, we asked the subjects to assess investments independent of the outcome. After the outcome was announced, the subjects were given the opportunity to reflect and change their initial decision. The results show that people change the moral evaluation and label of investments when told that it had a bad outcome. This observation was stable across different investment contexts. These findings suggest that we must be careful with the increasing moralization of investment decisions and be sensitive to our cognitive biases. UR - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278677 Y1 - 2023 UR - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278677 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-32059 SN - 1932-6203 VL - 18 IS - 1 PB - PLOS CY - San Francisco ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jauernig, Johanna A1 - Uhl, Matthias A1 - Valentinov, Vladislav T1 - The ethics of corporate hypocrisy: An experimental approach JF - Futures N2 - In the current landscape of management and business ethics scholarship, a prominent type of dissimulation is exemplified by corporate hypocrisy. The concept of corporate hypocrisy brings traditional morality to bear on the institutions of the modern society and thereby emphasizes the contested relationship between the research programs of individual and institutional ethics. Assuming that morality in the modern society resides in institutions rather than individuals, institutional ethics emphasizes limits to the ability of traditional morality to come to terms with the moral complexity of the market economy. The case of corporate hypocrisy shows however that traditional morality nurtures individual sensitivity to immoral behaviors which may undermine the modern institutional fabric theorized by institutional ethics. This argument is supported by our central experimental finding that the moral evaluation of individual and corporate hypocrisy is driven by essentially the same psychological mechanisms. Moreover, the experiment showed that both corporate and individual hypocrisy are condemned stronger than frankly wrong behavior even if their consequences are identical. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102757 KW - Moral evaluation KW - Institutional ethics KW - Behavioral ethics KW - Greenwashing KW - (Self-) deception Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102757 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-11125 SN - 0016-3287 VL - 2021 IS - 131 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -