Effect of subclinical depression on moral judgment dilemmas: a process dissociation approach

Yin, Xin; Hong, Zijing; Zheng, Yin-Jia; Ni, Ya

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-24473-2

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“…One common theme regards the deontological-utilitarian response differences mentioned above, studied from different approaches. One study examined whether people tend to trust deontological decision makers more than utilitarians 1 , another looked at the persuasive effect of deontological and utilitarian messages 2 , and yet another examined the way depression affected utilitarian and deontological aspects of moral decisions 3 . Like other works in this Collection, these include experimental designs that relied on vignettes, describing such moral dilemmas as the footbridge problem.…”

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“…Others examined the effects of individual traits and emotions on moral decisions. Yin et al 3 examined the levels of emotional and cognitive processes of depression on moral judgement. Du et al 11 demonstrated mindfulness training could prevent moral preference decline over time without changing emotional regulation strategies.…”

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Moral judgement and decision-making: theoretical predictions and null results

Hertz

Jia

Francis

2023

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The study of moral judgement and decision making examines the way predictions made by moral and ethical theories fare in real world settings. Such investigations are carried out using a variety of approaches and methods, such as experiments, modeling, and observational and field studies, in a variety of populations. The current Collection on moral judgments and decision making includes works that represent this variety, while focusing on some common themes, including group morality and the role of affect in moral judgment. The Collection also includes a significant number of studies that made theoretically driven predictions and failed to find support for them. We highlight the importance of such null-results papers, especially in fields that are traditionally governed by theoretical frameworks.The study of moral judgement and decision making examines the way people behave and react to social and moral dilemmas. Moral and ethical theories usually provide the foundation for such efforts, providing important constructs and definitions, and even suggesting hypothetical experimental designs. A good example is the differentiation between deontological and utilitarian basis of moral action selection. Characteristically utilitarian approaches look at the overall benefit of each action, while characteristically deontological approaches set principles, prohibiting some actions regardless of their ultimate outcome. Both approaches provide predictions for moral decisions and use hypothetical scenarios such as personal versus impersonal trolley-type problems to illustrate the different predictions. In recent years researchers have been putting such theories to the test in a variety of experimental designs and populations. Translating theoretical hypotheses and constructs to an experimental paradigm or an operational prediction is not trivial. Participants' individual traits and their cultural and societal context introduces variability and nuances to ethical theories. In addition, the technical need to build a robust and reliable experimental design, which can be evaluated using statistical tools, leads researchers to adopt experimental designs from different fields, such as economics and cognitive psychology.

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Moral judgement and decision-making: theoretical predictions and null results

Hertz

Jia

Francis

2023

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“…Second, we seek to explore whether personality traits previously implicated in lenient offence-related judgements (e.g., psychopathy) will also map onto infant homicide cases, and whether this relationship might be further moderated by the sex of the perpetrator. Variables likely to impact such outcomes, namely age, mental health stigma, mental wellbeing, and beliefs about gender roles will be controlled for (see Fido et al, 2022;Maroño & Bartels, 2020;Yin et al, 2022). Third, we explored participants' narratives about…”

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Bad Parents? Evaluating Judgments of Infant Homicides

Sparks¹,

Vione²,

Fido³

2022

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The murdering of one’s own infant may be one of the most harrowing crimes imaginable. Despite this and decades of debate over gendered infanticide laws, there exists little empirical work exploring attitudes toward individuals who have committed infant homicide. Such work has focused primarily on depictions of mothers, yet UK government data indicates that the majority of infant homicide cases involve paternal suspects. The present study used a mixed-methods design to explore attitudes toward mothers and fathers who have been accused of murdering their infant child. Vignettes were used to capture whether parental mental health issues impacted judgments. Participants (n = 245) were randomly assigned to one of two conditions, depicting a mother or father who admitted to murdering their infant child. Results indicated that maternal suspects are evaluated more leniently, in line with the chivalry hypothesis. Qualitative analyses uncovered hidden gender expectations: mothers were ascribed blame when the father was accused of infant homicide, a finding that was not present in the reverse scenario. These results suggest that traditional views of motherhood are at odds with a shifting social landscape that is seeing an increase in stay-at-home fathers wherein mothers are still held responsible for the father’s actions.

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