Replication of Berman (2020) Moral Choice When Harming is Unavoidable -BYU-Idaho Winter 2021

The members of the research team are Abygail Wolff, Mary Lange, Spencer Norconk, and Loren Riddle, under supervision of Brady Wiggins, at BYU-Idaho. The original study, Moral Choice When Harming is Unavoidable, was done by Jonathan Z. Berman and Daniella Kupor in 2020: The specific study that is being replicated is study 1, "Pulling Life support from the terminally ill." This particular study was exploring the idea that most people avoid inflicting harm when there is an option to do no harm, and that individuals may be more willing to do greater harm for a greater benefit when harming is an unavoidable choice. They used the chi square test for their experiment. They found that the results of the study confirmed their hypothesis, and that participants were more likely to do greater harm where greater benefit was also a factor in unavoidable harm situations. We are conducting a replication of this study at Brigham Young University - Idaho, with our participants being students from the General Psychology Class. In our replication of the study we have added in one more hypothesis, We want to see if Gender may affect the individuals moral reasoning, this hypothesis won't affect the method as we are already gathering information on the participants gender. An individuals gender may have an impact on their personality and we want to see if that impact may affect their moral reasoning.