Procedural Dilemma Generation for Moral Reasoning in Humans and Language Models

🧐 What is this?

This is a supporting repository for our paper "Procedural Dilemma Generation for Moral Reasoning in Humans and Language Models" (2024, CogSci).

• Preregistrations
• Repository structure

Preregistrations

Preregistrations for all experiments are available on the Open Science Framework (OSF):

• Experiment 1 - Good/Harm Judgments
• Experiment 2 - Permissibility and Intention Judgments

Repository structure

├── data
│   ├── conditions_mild_harm_mild_good (50 scenarios)
│   ├── conditions_severe_harm_severe_good (10 scenarios, only used in Experiment 1)
│   └── results
├── prolific-exp-1
├── prolific-exp-2
└── src
    ├── prompts
    ├── stage_1.py
    └── stage_2.py

• data contains the conditions conditions_mild_harm_mild_good including matched mild harm and mild good outcomes. We used to first 10 scenarios from each condition for our comparison in the paper (80 items). We also include conditions_severe_harm_severe_good which includes conditions with matched severe harm and severe good outcomes.
  • results include model responses including chain-of-thought examples
• prolific-exp-1 and prolific-exp-2 include the experimental stimuli and formatted participant data frames (_long_format.csv)
• src includes prompts and code (stage_1.py and stage_2.py) for generating items.
• docs contains all the experiment code. You can preview the experiments below:
  • Experiment 1 - Good/Harm Judgments
  • Experiment 2 - Permissibility and Intention Judgments