Call for Unpublished Studies on Means/Side-Effect Distinction

[Josh May]

Adam Feltz and I are conducting a meta-analysis on judgments related to the Doctrine of Double Effect. In particular, we are interested in seeing if the means/side-effect distinction is reflected in everyday moral judgments. The classic cases that illustrate the means/side-effect distinction are the Footbridge and Bystander cases (respectively). Of course, there are many different variations on these paradigmatic cases that also involve exploring the means/side-effect distinction.

We are currently looking for unpublished studies that you may have that are relevant to this meta-analysis. We would greatly appreciate you sending us descriptive statistics or the raw data so that we could include your unpublished studies in the meta-analysis. We are only interested in unpublished studies that experimentally manipulate the means/side-effect distinction.

Unpublished studies can be crucially important for accurately estimating mean effect sizes, so your help in this endeavor would help the community interested in this distinction.

If you have any unpublished studies, or have questions, please email them to Adam Feltz (adf...@mtu.edu). We'll start compiling the data we receive in two weeks (by January 3, 2017). Thanks for your help!