Researchers usually rely on sacrificial scenarios (Christensen et al.

, 2014) as the

trolley dilemma to study psychological aspects related to moral decision-making. A new

point of view to explore moral decision making in sacrificial dilemmas appeared with

the recent article entitled study A subjective utilitarian theory of Moral Judgement from

Dale Cohen and Minwoo Ahn (2016). In this article, they test how the personal value of

the items involved in the sacrificial scenarios affects the decision. We replicated some

of their procedures to try to find how significant is the personal value of the elements

involved in a real life-based situation. We also tried to find differences among sacrificial

and real life-based scenarios responses including personal valued elements.

In the first study, we replicated part of the Dale Cohen (2016) studies to create a

personal value-based hierarchy of elements from a sample of Spanish people. Secondly,

we selected available sacrificial scenarios and created new scenarios using the Scruples

(Markov, 1984) game as a font of possible situations. In the third study, we applied the

scenarios to a sample of 287 participants to test the responses to the different types of

scenarios created in study 2 using personal value elements from study 1. We found that

the personal value of elements predicted more response in sacrificial scenarios than in

experience-based, suggesting that different factors are influencing moral decision

making in every day based scenarios than in sacrificial.