@article{ref1,
title="Outcome-focused judgements of moral dilemmas in schizophrenia",
journal="Consciousness and cognition",
year="2017",
author="McGuire, Jonathan and Brüne, Martin and Langdon, Robyn",
volume="52",
number="",
pages="21-31",
abstract="Previous research on moral judgement in healthy adults suggests a complex interplay of automatic, emotional and deliberative processing. We aimed to advance understanding of these processes by examining moral judgement in individuals with schizophrenia, a population characterised by social-cognitive deficits and interpersonal difficulties. Forty-five patients with schizophrenia and 27 healthy controls judged high-conflict moral dilemmas in response to 3rd-person (i.e. &quot;Is it morally okay to [perform X]?&quot;) and 1st-person (i.e. &quot;Would you [perform X]?&quot;) probes. Controls were less utilitarian for 3rd-person than 1st-person probes, while this discrepancy did not hold for patients. Utilitarianism in patients correlated with higher levels of interpersonal conflict. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that people with schizophrenia focus equally on outcomes across moral-judgement conditions that ought normally to elicit an outcome-action discrepancy, suggesting that they are less influenced by an automatic aversive response to harmful acts in dilemma scenarios, consistent with a dual-process model of moral judgement.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8100",
doi="10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.004"
}