Fig. 2: Self-reported trust in utilitarian and non-utilitarian leaders.
From: Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis
a,b, Average trust in utilitarian versus non-utilitarian leaders, with results collapsed across instrumental harm and impartial beneficence dilemmas (a) and separately for each of the instrumental harm dilemmas (Lockdown, Tracing and Ventilators) and impartial beneficence dilemmas (PPE and Medicine) (b) in the self-report task (N = 17,591). Non-utilitarian leaders were seen as more trustworthy than utilitarian leaders for instrumental harm dilemmas, while the reverse was observed for impartial beneficence dilemmas. Bars correspond to median scores; lower and upper hinges correspond to the first and third quartiles, respectively; and whiskers ends correspond to the most extreme data points within 1.5 times the interquartile range.
