Is it true that negative emotions cause more utilitarian judgements? from the influence of emotion and cognition.
Cogn Emot
; 37(7): 1248-1260, 2023.
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| ID: mdl-37724809
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACTThe affect-as-information (AAI) model proposes that emotions influence the accessibility and value of information (Avramova & Inbar, 2013). Furthermore, according to the dual-process model of moral judgement, emotions and cognition influence moral judgement (Greene, 2007; Greene et al., 2001, 2008); however, there is no direct evidence of a causal chain to support this model's proposition. By using a 3 (emotions positive vs. neutral vs. negative) × 2 (primed rule save lives vs. do not kill) between-participants design, we examined two hypotheses in two experiments supraliminal (Experiment 1) and subliminal (Experiment 2) priming. Our results partially supported the AAI model and confirmed that emotions and cognition independently influence moral judgement. Specifically, the positive emotions group made more utilitarian decisions after being primed with the "save lives" rule and more deontological decisions after being primed with the do not kill rule. However, priming did not affect moral judgement in the negative emotion condition. Further, irrespective of whether priming was done, the negative emotion group mostly made utilitarian decisions. Accordingly, we propose a dynamic dual-process model of moral judgement, that can help clarify how emotion and cognition influence moral judgement.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cognition
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Judgment
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Cogn Emot
Year:
2023
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Article