Consistency and contrast effects in moral evaluation of euthanasia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F21%3A10380388" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/21:10380388 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/21:10380388 RIV/47122099:_____/21:N0000004
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=wAvCTk_qw3" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=wAvCTk_qw3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-0012-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12144-018-0012-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Consistency and contrast effects in moral evaluation of euthanasia
Original language description
Euthanasia is a highly controversial topic. One of the arguments against legalisation of euthanasia is that it would lead to an attitudinal slippery slope effect; that is, a shift in attitudes toward euthanasia even toward cases which were not legalised. The present study tested a possible mechanism which may lead to such shift in two experiments. Participants judged morality of euthanasia in two hypothetical scenarios describing patients requesting euthanasia. We found that participants who first evaluated a case of a non-terminally ill patient suffering from fatigue afterward considered euthanasia for a terminally ill patient suffering from pain more morally right than participants who evaluated euthanasia in the latter case first. Furthermore, we found that presenting the case of the patient suffering from fatigue before asking about attitudes toward legality of euthanasia led participants to oppose it more. The study suggests that public's expressed attitudes toward legality of euthanasia might be easily influenced by a choice of illustrative examples. However, the change in attitudes predicted by the slippery slope effect was not observed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30300 - Health sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Current Psychology
ISSN
1046-1310
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
822-830
UT code for WoS article
000621462000035
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85053797518