Relevance of Emotions in Morality: Emotion Differentiation Moderates the Influence of Disgust on Moral Judgments
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Heffner, Joseph
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
- Abstract
- Many studies have found that changing people’s emotions will change their moral judgments. I examined whether people who can skillfully differentiate between emotional states recognize and disregard irrelevant emotions and pay more attention to relevant emotions while making moral judgments. In experiment I did not find that individual differences in emotional differentiation moderated the relationship between disgust and subsequent moral judgments. Further examination of the data suggested consistency effects where participants used previous moral judgments to inform current moral judgments. In exploratory analyses that attempted to control for consistency effects, I found that participants were more lenient when primed with relevant disgust than neutral primes, suggesting a contrast effect. Future studies plan to expand the set of target behaviors to avoid such consistency effects.
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- spring 2013
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- Payne, B. Keith
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- Bachelor of Science
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 37
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