@article{ref1,
title="It's harder to push, when i have to push hard-physical exertion and fatigue changes reasoning and decision-making on hypothetical moral dilemmas in males",
journal="Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience",
year="2018",
author="Weippert, Matthias and Rickler, Michel and Kluck, Steffen and Behrens, Kristin and Bastian, Manuela and Mau-Moeller, Anett and Bruhn, Sven and Lischke, Alexander",
volume="12",
number="",
pages="e268-e268",
abstract="Despite the prevalence of physical exertion and fatigue during military, firefighting and disaster medicine operations, sports or even daily life, their acute effects on moral reasoning and moral decision-making have never been systematically investigated. To test the effects of physical exertion on moral reasoning and moral decision-making, we administered a moral dilemma task to 32 male participants during a moderate or high intensity cycling intervention. Participants in the high intensity cycling group tended to show more non-utilitarian reasoning and more non-utilitarian decision-making on impersonal but not on personal dilemmas than participants in the moderate intensity cycling group. Exercise-induced exertion and fatigue, thus, shifted moral reasoning and moral decision-making in a non-utilitarian rather than utilitarian direction, presumably due to an exercise-induced limitation of prefrontally mediated executive resources that are more relevant for utilitarian than non-utilitarian reasoning and decision-making.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1662-5153",
doi="10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00268",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00268"
}