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Self-Defeating Utilitarianism: Laypeople Think that Aiming to Maximize Societal Welfare Will Backfire
Utilitarianism holds that morally right actions are those that maximize aggregate welfare. One might therefore expect a society that adopts utilitarianism as its guiding moral code to flourish. However, across five preregistered studies (plus one preregistered supplemental study; total N = 2,626), w
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