Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour

Francis, Kathryn B.; McNabb, Carolyn Beth

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769177

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“…Similarly, other behaviors that might impair pandemic mitigation were moralized (Francis & McNabb, 2022).…”

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Young adults’ perceptions and theories of crises: Interrelations between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic

Kulcar¹,

Juen²

2022

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While the COVID-19 pandemic has been dominating public discourse since its emergence climate change continues to progress. Early on during the pandemic, scientists began to investigate how both crises are related to each other and what can be learned from the pandemic to improve the response to climate change. Still, folk theories and public perceptions on this matter are rarely researched. We conducted 38 semi-structured in-depth interviews with German-speaking young adults, aged 20 to 33 years. In the interviews, we assessed young adults’ experiences of and views on climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both crises were addressed simultaneously in the interviews to elaborate on similarities, differences, and interrelations from the perspective of young adults. The interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Participants provided detailed and sophisticated insights on how the crises relate to each other as well as their similarities and differences. Accounts corresponded to large part with scientific analyses on the topic but also gave new insights. Crises were differentiated regarding their level of threat and timescale as well as crisis mitigation approaches. Human characteristics were interpreted as roots of the crises and crises mitigation was overall evaluated as poor which left young adults with negative expectations for their future. Young adults feel their future at stake and demand a fundamental change in societal and political systems. Their insights can provide guidelines for crisis mitigation approaches as well as public communication.

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“…Similarly, other behaviors that might impair pandemic mitigation were moralized (Francis & McNabb, 2022).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young adults’ perceptions and theories of crises: Interrelations between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic

Kulcar¹,

Juen²

2022

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“…However, the data used for the Western groups were collected in 2017, which is not recent. Following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, all aspects of people’s lives have been greatly affected, including changes in moral judgment (Francis & McNabb, 2022 ; Maftei et al, 2022 ). Future studies should ensure that all data used are collected simultaneously.…”

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Exploring cultural and gender differences in moral judgment: A cross-cultural study based on the CNI model

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Recently, researchers have proposed a polynomial model called the “consequences, norms, generalized inaction” (CNI) model for researching moral judgment. However, it is unclear whether the model can be used to explore cultural differences in moral judgment. In this study, we investigated the applicability of the CNI model of moral judgment to East Asian groups, and subsequently explored cultural and gender differences in moral judgment between East Asian (i.e., Japan, n = 211; China, n = 200) and Western (i.e., USA, n = 201) groups. The CNI model was proposed by Gawronski et al., and it can quantify individuals’ sensitivity to moral consequence, sensitivity to moral norms, and their general preference for inaction or action in moral dilemmas. Our results indicate that the CNI model fits well for Japanese and Chinese individuals. Both East Asian women and Western women were significantly more sensitive to moral norms than men in their respective countries. In the international comparison, Westerners were more sensitive to moral norms. The Japanese groups, for both men and women, were most biased towards inaction. Regarding sensitivity towards consequences, no differences were observed in the comparison between Eastern and Western male groups, whereas poor sensitivity was observed among women. By using this new model, this study provides new insights into the differences of cultural and gender in moral judgment. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-023-04662-6.

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“…Thus, moral reasoning is not private and rational, nor does it necessarily precede moral judgement; on the contrary, it is often a post hoc construction that aims to justify one’s emotions, intuitions and actions in line with preferred higher common values and principles. Studies that have begun investigating the impact of the pandemic on moral reasoning have noticed how the pandemic has shifted public priorities and moral perceptions, and resulted in the moralisation of behaviours previously considered neutral, for example, social distancing (Francis & McNabb, 2021 ; Navajas et al., 2021 ); and how government communications and the media used this moral reframing of behaviours to promote compliance with public health behaviours (Francis & McNabb, 2021 ; Kasper et al., 2022 ). Haidt ( 2001 ) argues that in highly ambiguous situations that disturb the prevailing ‘order or worth’, reasoning processes are incapable of offering immediate or predictable outcomes; as such, the intuitive process remains the default practice to handle moral judgements in a rapid and holistic way.…”

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Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust

Faux-Nightingale

Kelemen

Lilley

et al. 2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobilised and reframed ideas of right and wrong in order to make sense of unprecedented uncertainty and displacement.By focussing on how the macro and micro politics of the pandemic were played out in the organisation, the study finds that polarised moral judgements were invoked in order to justify and rationalise a broad array of associated emergent emotions, intuitions, behaviours and practices. This polarisation of moral responses could be seen as a desire to bring order out of chaos and put matters back into place following displacement. This is inevitably an ongoing, complex and variegated enterprise whose results can be as often discomforting as they can be reassuring. Indeed, while moral sensemaking was partly beneficial for staff in that it promoted a greater sense of camaraderie and support for others, it also appeared to have darker consequences in terms of staff wellbeing and the development of more

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Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

Young adults’ perceptions and theories of crises: Interrelations between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic

Young adults’ perceptions and theories of crises: Interrelations between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic

Exploring cultural and gender differences in moral judgment: A cross-cultural study based on the CNI model

Sensemaking in the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A narrative exploration of polarised morality in an NHS Trust

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