Dries Bostyn

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Psychology Lab, Ghent University, Belgium

Dries Bostyn is a senior postdoctoral fellow associated with Ghent University in Belgium. His work has been published in Psychological Science and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and elsewhere. He was awarded an APS rising star award in 2024.

Written by Dries Bostyn

A vintage voltmeter displaying a scale in volts and ampères with a brass base and needle indicator.
ETHICS

What a real-life ‘trolley problem’ reveals about morality

We used an electric-shock dilemma to test the strength of people’s moral principles when faced with real-world complexities

by Dries Bostyn