Reason and Emotion in Moral Judgement : Rational Thinking and the Discounting of Irrelevant Affect
(2005)Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- An experiment was conducted to see if a deeper level of thought can reduce the impact that the basic emotion of disgust has on moral judgement. 58 university students (30 male and 28 female) participated in the experiment. They read stories that describe morally questionable actions with a vivid disgust ending, and were asked to rate the moral content of the same stories three times, implying a different level of rational thinking.
The results indicate that the participants' moral judgements becomes milder as the rational thinking becomes deeper, pointing to a discarding of irrelevant negative affect. The relationship of moral judgement with some personality characteristics was studied, and a significant correlation was found with disgust... (More) - An experiment was conducted to see if a deeper level of thought can reduce the impact that the basic emotion of disgust has on moral judgement. 58 university students (30 male and 28 female) participated in the experiment. They read stories that describe morally questionable actions with a vivid disgust ending, and were asked to rate the moral content of the same stories three times, implying a different level of rational thinking.
The results indicate that the participants' moral judgements becomes milder as the rational thinking becomes deeper, pointing to a discarding of irrelevant negative affect. The relationship of moral judgement with some personality characteristics was studied, and a significant correlation was found with disgust sensitivity, rational thinking style, and experiential (intuitive) thinking style. (Less)
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- author
- Ghetti, Roberta
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- moral, värderingar, känslor, moral judgement, rationality, emotion, intuition, disgust, Psychology, Psykologi
- language
- English
- id
- 1333528
- date added to LUP
- 2005-03-11 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-03-11 00:00:00
@misc{1333528,
abstract = {{An experiment was conducted to see if a deeper level of thought can reduce the impact that the basic emotion of disgust has on moral judgement. 58 university students (30 male and 28 female) participated in the experiment. They read stories that describe morally questionable actions with a vivid disgust ending, and were asked to rate the moral content of the same stories three times, implying a different level of rational thinking.
The results indicate that the participants' moral judgements becomes milder as the rational thinking becomes deeper, pointing to a discarding of irrelevant negative affect. The relationship of moral judgement with some personality characteristics was studied, and a significant correlation was found with disgust sensitivity, rational thinking style, and experiential (intuitive) thinking style.}},
author = {{Ghetti, Roberta}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Reason and Emotion in Moral Judgement : Rational Thinking and the Discounting of Irrelevant Affect}},
year = {{2005}},
}