Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1):29-35 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2021.003

The ticking bomb scenario

Pavlína Koą»álová, Olga Pechová
Katedra psychologie FF UP, Kříľkovského 10, 779 00 Olomouc, Česká republika

The goal of this research was to explore the attitudes towards the ticking bomb scenario and the influence of the chosen fields of study, gender, faith and the extent of certainty the culprit has about being given the relevant information. This study was undertaken using quantitative methodology and a part of a questionnaire done by WordPublicOpinion.org was included in the collection of data along with an original construction. University students were the main subjects of the study, chosen by random sampling. From 519 respondents 167 were men and 352 women. They were further divided to 203 students of helping professions and 203 of other professions. There were 143 subjects of religious faith. The influence of chosen fields and faith proved to be statistically significant. Furthermore, gender and the extent of certainty proved to be highly statistically significant. In summary we can say that the influence of chosen fields of study, gender, faith and the extent of certainty that the culprit has about being given the relevant information towards the ticking bomb scenario was proven.

Keywords: ticking bomb scenario, attitudes, torture, helping profession, gender, religion

Received: March 15, 2021; Revised: July 16, 2021; Accepted: August 25, 2021; Prepublished online: September 16, 2021; Published: November 1, 2021  Show citation

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