Table 1.

Example stimuli^a

Scenario	Mean emotional rating	Mean utilitarian rating
Stand-alone evil deeds
Forcibly remove one kidney from an elderly person who is dying	−1.07	−0.57
Forcibly remove all organs from a young healthy child	−1.36	−1.29
Put out cigarette butts on a captured terrorist's face	−0.86	−0.43
Push large man in front of a runaway bus, killing him instantly	−1.29	−1.21
Push large man in front of a runaway bus, dismembering and killing him slowly via blood loss	−1.43	−1.25
Stand-alone greater goods
Save life of another person by transplanting organs	1.04	0.79
Save life of U.S. president by transplanting organs	1.04	0.96
Gain information that saves Los Angeles from a terrorist nuclear weapon	1.36	1.46
Prevent injury of five pedestrians by a runaway bus	1.29	0.86
Prevent killing of five schoolchildren by runaway bus	1.25	1.11

^aRatings were made on a scale from 1 to 4. Means reported in the table were adjusted to have a range running from −1.5 to 1.5 to better distinguish negatively and positively valenced items.