On the role of attention and emotion in morality: attentional control modulates unrelated disgust in moral judgments.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull
; 38(9): 1222-31, 2012 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
The emotion of disgust can influence people's moral judgments, even if this emotion objectively is unrelated to the moral judgment in question. The present work demonstrates that attentional control regulates this effect. In three studies, disgust was induced. In an unrelated part of the studies, participants then judged a moral transgression. Disgust resulted in more severe moral judgments when attentional control (either measured by means of individual predisposition or manipulated with experimental control) was weak as opposed to strong (Studies 1-3). Findings further showed that attentional control mediated the positive relation between the intensity of participants' disgust responses and the severity of their moral judgments (Study 2). Moreover, attentional control has its effects through the regulation of affective processing (Study 3). Taken together, the findings suggest that unrelated influences of disgust on moral judgments are contingent on the attention system.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Julgamento
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Princípios Morais
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Pers Soc Psychol Bull
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Holanda