1 Northwestern University , Evanston, IL , USA.
2 Boston College , Chestnut Hill, MA , USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 Apr 29;374(1771):20180041. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0041.
This research provides, to our knowledge, the first systematic empirical investigation of people's aversion to playing God. Seven studies validate this construct and show its association with negative moral judgements of science and technology. Motivated by three nationally representative archival datasets that demonstrate this relationship, studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that people condemn scientific procedures they perceive to involve playing God. Studies 3-5 demonstrate that dispositional aversion to playing God corresponds to decreased willingness to fund the National Science Foundation and lower donations to organizations that support novel scientific procedures. Studies 6a and 6b demonstrate that people judge a novel (versus established) scientific practice to involve more playing God and to be more morally unacceptable. Finally, study 7 demonstrates that reminding people of an existing incident of playing God reduces concerns towards scientific practices. Together, these findings provide novel evidence for the impact of people's aversion to playing God on science and policy-related decision-making. This article is part of the theme issue 'From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction'.
这项研究首次系统地实证调查了人们对扮演上帝的反感。七项研究验证了这一结构，并表明它与对科学技术的负面道德判断有关。受三项具有代表性的档案数据集的启发，这些数据集表明了这种关系，研究 1 和 2 表明，人们谴责他们认为涉及扮演上帝的科学程序。研究 3-5 表明，对扮演上帝的性格反感对应于减少资助国家科学基金会的意愿和降低对支持新科学程序的组织的捐款。研究 6a 和 6b 表明，人们认为一种新的（相对于既定的）科学实践更多地涉及扮演上帝，并且在道德上更不可接受。最后，研究 7 表明，提醒人们注意已经发生的扮演上帝事件会减少对科学实践的担忧。总之，这些发现为人们对扮演上帝的反感对科学和政策相关决策的影响提供了新的证据。本文是主题为“从社会大脑到社交机器人：将神经认知见解应用于人机交互”的一部分。
