Moral dilemmas: Different definitions, types, and quantities used in experiments

The notion of moral dilemma is frequently used experimentally across some fields such as psychology and humanities where serious decisions have to be made between two unpleasant things that can have serious life consequences. In the present article, though briefly in scope, we thus tried to supply related information on the nature and noticeable characteristics of dilemmas, their different types, and the regular number of dilemmatic stories used in experimental experiences. We, therefore, explained that dilemmas could be of two major types: Self or other imposed ones with either high level or low level of personal involvement. Then, across tentative situations by renowned scholars, the dilemmas have ranged from two to up to 40 stories for experimentation. Furthermore, because of the sensitivity and importance of decision making under dilemmatic situations and different cultural interpretations of these situations, we suggested that the topic still allows for more future investigations cross-culturally across different study fields

Keywords:

dilemma , decision making , difficult , conflict