Greene's dual-process model posits two systems for moral judgments. The two are a rational utilitarian calculus and which other system?

• A. Utilitarian Calculus and Emotional Disgust
• B. Deontology
• C. Virtue Ethics
• D. Social Contract Theory

Answer: (A)

Greene’s model explains moral judgment as a product of two cognitive systems. One is a controlled, rational process that performs a utilitarian calculus—weighing costs and benefits to determine the greatest overall good. The other is a fast, automatic, affective system driven by moral emotions, such as disgust or strong intuitive aversion, that biases judgments without deliberate reasoning. This emotional system often pulls judgments toward non-utilitarian intuitions even when a utilitarian calculation might suggest a different outcome. So the pairing is a rational utilitarian calculation with emotional responses like disgust. The other options refer to normative ethical theories rather than the two cognitive systems Greene describes, so they don’t fit the model.