Thus, intellectually curious people—those who are motivated to explore and reflect upon abstract ideas—are more inclined to judge the morality of behaviors according to the consequences they produce.
Notably in the EA Survey we measured Need for Cognition respondents scored ludicrously highly, with the maximum response for each item being the modal response.
This is probably mentioned in the paper, but the Cognitive Reflection Test is also associated with utilitarianism, Need for Cognition is associated with utilitarianism, Actively Open-minded Thinking is associated with utilitarianism and numeracy is associated with utilitarianism. Note that I don’t endorse all of these papers’ conclusions (for one thing, some are using the simple ‘trolley paradigm’ which I think likely isn’t capturing utilitarianism very well).
Notably in the EA Survey we measured Need for Cognition respondents scored ludicrously highly, with the maximum response for each item being the modal response.