Career Choices and Moral Choices. Changing Tracks in the Trolley Problem

Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices∗

This document provides supplementary material to our paper “Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices”. Appendix I presents tables with additional results. This includes descriptive statistics of the control variables (A.I), a comparison of study tracks by gender in the national statistics and in our sample (A.II), the distribution of undergraduate major students by study track at the pre-univ...

Free Irrationality in Moral Choices

This paper explores the question of whether an agent can freely and willfully act against her all-things-considered best judgment. I construct the case of an agent acting against the demands of impartial morality that give her decisive reason to act, without compromising her full agential power and strong will. I call this her demonstration of free irrationality and distinguish it from the acco...

120911 - Changing Choices vs.indd

120911 - Changing Choices vs.indd

Su m m ar y summAry Adolescence is a period of physical, psychological and social transitions from childhood to adulthood. It is associated with a unique set of behaviours, resulting in the common view that adolescents are myopic risk-takers, who are unable to plan ahead or envision the long-term consequences of their decisions and actions. It is also a period of continued development of the co...

120911 - Changing Choices vs.indd

This study examined age-related changes in a specific aspect of adolescent decisionmaking, namely the preference for future versus immediate outcomes. A sample of 622 Dutch adolescents aged 12 -17 years completed a temporal discounting task. Participants were asked to choose between a delayed reward of €50 or an immediate reward of lower value. The delay interval was varied in three blocks (1 w...