Emotion and social motivation in university students´ real life moral dilemmas
(2002) In Lund Psychological Reports- Abstract
- Studied the relationship between motivation and approaches to moral decision-making, and the emotions experienced in moral dilemmas. 44 students were interviewed about a dilemma they had faced. Intimacy was related to a preference for making decisions after having consulted others and to being open to their values and norms, whereas achievement was related to consequence-oriented reasoning and concrete construal of moral problems. When asked to relive their moral dilemma, participants scored lower than their baseline level on a mood questionnaire, females scoring lower than the males. Possible implications of emotion on cognitive processes involved in solving moral dilemmas are discussed.
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- author
- Björklund, Fredrik LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- emotion, decision making, motivation, moral dilemmas
- in
- Lund Psychological Reports
- pages
- 19 pages
- publisher
- Department of Psychology, Lund University
- report number
- Vol 3 no 1
- ISSN
- 1404-8035
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- ac2740d1-5c2b-4cf4-b2cb-d33b327b2a58 (old id 758500)
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- 2016-04-01 16:54:00
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