Framing Morality: How Antecedent-Focused Strategies Can Shape Moral Judgments
Autor: | Andreas Kappes, Van Bavel Jj |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Social and Personality Psychology|Moral Behavior
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences Antecedent (logic) media_common.quotation_subject Framing (construction) bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Social Psychology bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Personality and Social Contexts Morality Psychology PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Social and Personality Psychology Social psychology media_common |
Popis: | From moral philosophy to programming driverless cars, scholars have long been interested in how to shape moral decision-making. We examine how framing can impact moral judgments either by shaping which emotional reactions are evoked in a situation (antecedent-focused) or by changing how people respond to their emotional reactions (response-focused). In three experiments, we manipulated the framing of a moral decision-making task before participants judged a series of moral dilemmas. Participants encouraged to go “with their first” response beforehand favored emotion-driven judgments on high-conflict moral dilemmas. In contrast, participants who were instructed to give a “thoughtful” response beforehand or who did not receive instructions on how to approach the dilemmas favored reason-driven judgments. There was no difference in response-focused control during moral judgements. Process-dissociation confirmed that people instructed to go with their first response had stronger emotion-driven intuitions than other conditions. Our results suggest that task framing can alter moral intuitions. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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