How Power Influences Moral Judgement: The Effect of Situational Involvement

Zheng, Mufan; Zhao, Junhua

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2013.01274

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“…This is because the low degree of personal involvement in situations of this kind of had a little effect on individual cognitive resources utilization reduces the feeling of the strength of individual emotions, and emotional induced just increase the influence of emotion in moral judgments, it conforms to the theory of cognitive resources are limited. It is believed that when an individual's additional cognitive load tasks occupy available cognitive resources, the individual's feelings of emotional intensity will be reduced [12].…”

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Experimental Study on the Influence of Cognition and Emotion on Moral Judgment of College Students in Dilemma Situation

Sun¹,

Xiao²,

Liu³

et al. 2023

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

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Objective: To study the influence of cognition and emotion on moral judgment of college students under the circumstance of whether the cognitive resources are occupied and whether the emotion is induced. Methods: This experiment uses a multi-factor mixed experiment method to divide experiments and groups. Experiment 1 uses a two-factor mixed experimental design of 2 (cognitive resource occupancy group, cognitive resource non-occupied group) × 3 (difficult situation type). Experiment 2 uses a two-factor mixed experimental design of 2 (emotion induction group, emotion induction and cognitive resource occupation group) × 3 (three types of dilemma situation types) is adopted. The dependent variable of this experiment (including Experiment 1 and Experiment 2) is the judgment response time and the judgment result is "Yes" (F) or "No" (J). Results: (1) The reaction time of the cognitive resource occupancy group was significantly higher than that of the cognitive resource non-occupied group, and the cognitive resource occupancy group in the three types of dilemma situations of high personal involvement, low personal involvement, and non-personal participation. There is no significant difference between the results of moral judgments and the cognitive resource non-occupied group. (2) In the three dilemmas of high personal involvement, low personal involvement, and non-personal participation, the emotion-induced group and the emotion-induced and cognitive resource occupation group have no significant differences in reaction time and moral judgment results. (3) In the three dilemmas of high personal involvement, low personal involvement, and non-personal participation, the reaction time difference between the cognitive resource occupation group and the emotionally induced and cognitive resource occupation is not significant, while in the dilemma of low personal involvement, the number of people in the cognitive resource occupation group whose moral judgment is "Yes" was significantly higher than that in the emotionally induced and cognitive resource occupation group. (4) In the three dilemmas of high personal involvement, low personal involvement, and non-personal participation, the reaction time of the emotionally induced group was significantly higher than that of the cognitive resource non-occupied group, and the moral judgment results of the two groups were both found no significant difference. Conclusion: When the occupation of cognitive resources and the induction of emotions will significantly affect the response of individual moral judgments, different types of dilemmas will significantly affect the results of individual moral judgments.

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Experimental Study on the Influence of Cognition and Emotion on Moral Judgment of College Students in Dilemma Situation

Sun¹,

Xiao²,

Liu³

et al. 2023

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

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“… 20 Some scholars also believe that this emotion of feeling one’s moral sentiment is elevated after hearing and witnessing the moral behavior of others belongs to moral emotion, and moral elevation can promote pro-social behavior and curb antisocial behavior. 21 , 22 When moral elevation is induced, research subjects produce distinctive physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses, 23 such as respect, awe, joy, and love; 24 positive cognitions and cognitive changes like positive perceptions of oneself and others; and accompanied by positive motivations such as helping others, being close to others, and emulating the moral behavior of others. 20 , 24 These studies suggest that moral elevation may have a positive and active effect on behavior and that having a positive self-perception is a core motivation for moral elevation to change behavior when individuals are more inclined to emulate the moral behavior of others to act or try to restrain their immoral behavior from maintaining a positive self.…”

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Mechanisms of Self-Control in the Influence of Moral Elevation on Pro-Social Behavior: A Study Based on an Experimental Paradigm

Huang,

Fang

2024

PRBM

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Introduction Because the mechanisms by which moral elevation triggers an individual’s pro-social behavior remain unclear, this study examined the mediating role of self-control resources in the relationship between moral elevation and pro-social behavior. Methods Experiment 1 examined the effects of moral elevation on self-control resources using two task paradigms, the Stroop task and the Go/NoGo task, with 80 college students as study participants. Experiment 2 was conducted with an additional 140 college students, using both experimental and questionnaire methods to examine the mediating role of self-control resources in the effects of moral elevation on pro-social behavior. Results (1) The results of Experiment 1 showed that the self-control ability of the moral elevation induction group was significantly better than that of the non-induction group. The accuracy rate of self-control tasks in the induction group (0.94 ± 0.01) was significantly higher than that in the non-induction group (0.89 ± 0.01, F (1,79) =19.10, p <0.001, η 2 =0.50). The mean reaction time of the self-control tasks in the induction group (393.63 ± 3.5) was significantly lower than that in the non-induction group (415.38 ±7.30, F (1,79) =5.87, p =0.026, η 2 =0.24). (2) The results of Experiment 2 showed a significant positive correlation between moral elevation and self-control resources (r=0.46, p<0.001), a significant positive correlation between moral elevation and pro-social behavior (r=0.33, p<0.001), and a significant positive correlation between self-control resources and pro-social behavior (r=0.31, p<0.001). Not only did moral elevation significantly and positively predict pro-social behavior (β= 0.23, p=0.011), but it also significantly and positively predicted self-control resources (β= 0.46, p<0.001). Self-control resources significantly and positively predicted pro-social behavior (β= 0.20, p=0.025). The bootstrap test for the mediating effect of self-control resources showed that the upper and lower limits of the 95% confidence interval did not include 0 (indirect effect 0.09, 95% CI [0.023, 0.242], p<0.001), and the mediating effect accounted for 28.13%. Conclusion This study revealed the mediating role of self-control resources in the relationship between moral elevation and pro-social behavior, which has important theoretical and practical implications for cultivating pro-social behavior and moral education among college students.

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“…Utilitarian moral judgments are based on the belief that the behavior that benefits the most people is moral, while deontological moral judgments emphasize that the behavior that complies the best with ethics is moral, even if it may result in a greater loss (Greene et al, 2004;Greene et al, 2001). Researchers have investigated the reasons for such discrepancies from various perspectives, such as cognition (Larson, 2017), emotion (Avramova & Inbar, 2013;Haidt, 2001;Landy, & Goodwin, 2015), context (Agerström et al, 2006), embodied cognition (see Ye & Zhang, 2015), individual differences (Monin et al, 2007;Yang et al, 2014;Zheng & Zhao, 2013), and religion and culture (Skitka et al, 2009). In recent years, some studies have begun to explore the influence of regulatory focus on moral judgment from the perspective of motivation theory (Chung et al, 2014;Cornwell & Higgins, 2016;Wu et al, 2016).…”

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The Influence of Fit Between Regulatory Focus and Decision-Making Strategies on Moral Judgment

Zhou¹,

Dong²,

Xing³

et al. 2023

ACP

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Using a 2 (regulatory focus: promotion/prevention-focused) × 2 (decision-making strategies: intuitive/rational strategies) experimental design, the current study explored the influence of regulatory focus and decision-making strategies on moral judgment. The results are as follows: (a) The main influencing effect of regulatory focus was statistically significant. Specifically, participants that were promotion-focused tended to make utilitarian moral judgments while participants that were prevention-focused tended to make deontological moral judgments. (b) The interaction effect of regulatory focus and decision-making strategies was also statistically significant. Specifically, moral judgement scores from participants that were promotion-focused were higher when they adopted intuitive rather than rational strategies while the scores of participants that were prevention-focused were higher when they adopted rational rather than intuitive strategies. These results suggest that the fit between regulatory focus and decision-making strategies can influence moral judgment.

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How Power Influences Moral Judgement: The Effect of Situational Involvement

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Experimental Study on the Influence of Cognition and Emotion on Moral Judgment of College Students in Dilemma Situation

Experimental Study on the Influence of Cognition and Emotion on Moral Judgment of College Students in Dilemma Situation

Mechanisms of Self-Control in the Influence of Moral Elevation on Pro-Social Behavior: A Study Based on an Experimental Paradigm

The Influence of Fit Between Regulatory Focus and Decision-Making Strategies on Moral Judgment

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