The processing of moral transgressions: Investigating the role of affective evaluation

道德违规的处理：调查情感评价的作用

• 批准号: 281353812
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Hartmut Leuthold
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Biologische Psychologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/281353812?language=en
• 关键词: processing; moral; transgressions; Investigating; role

Currently, there is an ongoing debate concerning the functional role of emotion in moral judgment and decision-making (JDM). Thus, emotions may either (a) play a causal role, (b) exert a moderating influence, or (c) merely reflect an epiphenomenal by-product of moral JDM. Even if one assumes that emotions play a critical role in JDM, so far the mechanisms underlying their influence on moral information processing have remained unclear. In the present project, we are specifically interested in the question of whether affective processes and states assumed to be involved in moral JDM do indeed precede the decision process, as assumed by two prominent theories of moral judgment (social-intuitivist model of Haidt and dual-process theory of Greene and colleagues). Hence, we aim at examining the time-course of moral processing in paradigms that give us access to the underlying mental processes and (affective) states in close temporal proximity to their elicitation. A further goal is to assess the impact of emotion-related dimensions (arousal, valence, motivational tendency) on moral JDM for different types of moral (or socio-normative) materials. To address these questions, we employ different vignettes and task paradigms, analysing psychophysiological measures (event-related potentials, electrodermal activity, facial muscle activity) in addition to behavioural ones (response time).

目前，关于情感在道德判断和决策（JDM）中的功能作用一直存在争论。因此，情绪可能（a）发挥因果作用，（b）发挥调节影响，或者（c）仅仅反映道德 JDM 的附带现象。即使人们假设情绪在 JDM 中发挥着关键作用，但迄今为止，情绪对道德信息处理的影响机制仍不清楚。在本项目中，我们特别感兴趣的问题是，被假定参与道德 JDM 的情感过程和状态是否确实先于决策过程，正如两种著名的道德判断理论（海特的社会直觉主义模型和对偶模型）所假设的那样。 -格林及其同事的过程理论）。因此，我们的目标是在范式中检查道德加工的时间进程，使我们能够在时间上接近其引发的情况下了解潜在的心理过程和（情感）状态。进一步的目标是评估不同类型道德（或社会规范）材料的情感相关维度（唤醒、效价、动机倾向）对道德 JDM 的影响。为了解决这些问题，我们采用不同的小插图和任务范式，除了行为测量（响应时间）之外，还分析心理生理测量（事件相关电位、皮肤电活动、面部肌肉活动）。