Situationally dependent changes in moral values: Manipulating moral beliefs using a robotic experimenter
| dc.contributor.advisor | Haselager, W.F.G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Looijen, S. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-07-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Moral Foundations Theory describes morality as consisting of separately measurable moral foundations. One challenge this theory faces is that moral values are non-static in reality: They differ intrasubjectively depending on context, time and events, while any single measurement of foundation values in subjects is a static snapshot. To address this challenge, the current bachelor thesis project investigates how moral values change over time by measuring them in the same subjects before and after said subjects have been put into a situation that is meant to impact their beliefs. Similar to the second experiment by Vohs & Schooler[1] that this thesis attempts to partially replicate, each subject is manipulated in one of several conditions (free will, determinism, neutral) and is asked to solve complicated problems as part of a competition during which it is possible to cheat. The Pepper robot is used as a replacement of the human experimenter and strengthens the conditions of the experiment by producing statements written from its perspective as a deterministic system. This project could not replicate fi ndings by Vohs & Schooler (2008): The manipulation of beliefs had no signifi cant effect on amounts of cheating. Additionally, it could not find a signifi cant of the same manipulation on measurements of subjects' moral values. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/5277 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Bachelor Artificial Intelligence | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Artificial Intelligence | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Bachelor | en_US |
| dc.title | Situationally dependent changes in moral values: Manipulating moral beliefs using a robotic experimenter | en_US |
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