article_snippet.sent: The answer, according to a recent scientific study, has a lot to do with your gender; and women are far more reluctant to cause any harm in the short term in order to get a better result in the long run.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers from Germany, Canada and the United States found that significantly more men than women would kill to save lives further down the line, while women were more troubled by the act itself and would often decide to do nothing.
article_snippet.sent: The study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin revealed that women are more reluctant than men to do something harmful in the short-term to secure a better result in the long term (file photo)
article_snippet.sent: The scientists found that men were moderately more likely to fall into the utilitarian camp, while in women there was a very pronounced trend to go the opposite way.
article_snippet.sent: Other data also suggested that women found the decisions more agonizing than the men, who had relatively straightforward time coming to women conclusion.
article_snippet.sent: Rebecca Friesdorf, one of the researchers, who is based at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, said that the results seem to show women employ more emotion making women decisions, while men go more on logic alone.
article_snippet.sent: As the women had stronger, competing urges in each scenario, the women found the dilemmas more difficult.
article_snippet.sent: Explaining her study to NPR, her said: 'Women seem to be feeling more equal levels of both emotion and cognition.
article_snippet.sent: Women seem to be experiencing similar levels of Women, so it's more difficult for Women to make Women choice.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Found men were more likely than women to say ends justify the means .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Whichever way Found men decided, women also found the decisions harder .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists speculated it is because women's reasoning is more emotional .