People make moral decisions every day. When making such decisions, they may be influenced by their companions (a so-called moral conformity effect). Increasingly, people make decisions in online environments, like video meetings. In the current preregistered experiment, we studied the moral conformity effect in an online context. We applied an Asch conformity paradigm by asking participants (N = 120) to reply to sacrificial moral dilemmas through the online video communication tool Zoom either when sitting in a “virtual” room with strangers (confederates instructed on how to answer; experimental condition) or when sitting alone (control condition). We found that people displayed a moral conformity effect on half the dilemmas included in our study as well as in the aggregate.

人们每天都会做出道德决定。在做出此类决定时，他们可能会受到同伴的影响（所谓的道德从众效应）。人们越来越多地在在线环境（例如视频会议）中做出决策。在当前的预注册实验中，我们研究了在线环境下的道德整合效应。我们应用了阿希从众范式，要求参与者（N  = 120）通过在线视频通信工具 Zoom 回答牺牲道德困境，或者与陌生人坐在“虚拟”房间里（指导同伴如何回答；实验条件），或者独自坐着时（控制条件）。我们发现，人们在我们研究中所包含的一半困境以及总体上表现出道德从众效应。