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Can we predict your gender based on your answer to moral dilemmas?

Can we predict your gender based on your answer to moral dilemmas?

As with previous quizzes, we'll start this with a disclaimer. Gender is socially constructed and this is designed purely for entertainment.

With that in mind, we were intrigued by a recent study published in the journal of Personality and Social Psychology which found men and women respond differently to moral dilemmas. The study asked 6,100 people 20 questions which had various moral dilemmas about subjects such as murder, torture, lying, and animal research and we've asked some below.

For those who didn't want to take the test, the study found that men were more likely to accept harmful actions for the greater good than women. As lead author Rebecca Friesdorf put it: "Women are more likely to have a gut-level negative reaction to causing harm to an individual, while men experience less emotional responses to doing harm."

More: Gender Differences in Responses to Moral Dilemmas: A Process Dissociation Analysis

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