Moral decision-making with bounded cognitive resources and limited information
Real-world moral decisions are constrained by limited information and bounded cognitive resources, necessitating heuristic strategies. We argue that choices in moral dilemmas should be analysed in terms of decision strategies rather than ethical theories and show how resource rationality and the bias-variance trade-off explain when people rely on particular strategies.
Authors
- Falk Lieder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2746-6110)
- Maximilian Maier
- Vanessa Cheung
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.010
- Primary Topic
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00