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).

当前，关于情感在道德判断和决策（JDM）中的功能作用的辩论一直存在。因此，情绪可以（a）发挥因果作用，（b）发挥调节作用，或者（c）仅反映了道德JDM的epiphenomenal副产品。即使假设情绪在JDM中起着至关重要的作用，到目前为止，其对道德信息处理影响的机制仍然不清楚。在本项目中，我们对假定参与道德JDM的情感过程和国家是否确实在决策过程之前的问题特别感兴趣，正如两个道德判断的两种突出理论（HAIDT的社会义教模型和Greene和Greene及其同事的双重过程）所假定的那样。因此，我们旨在检查范式中道德处理的时间顺序，这使我们能够访问潜在的心理过程和（情感）状态，并与其启发的时间紧密相邻。另一个目标是评估与情绪相关的维度（唤醒，价，动机趋势）对不同类型的道德（或社会规范）材料的影响。为了解决这些问题，我们采用了不同的小插图和任务范例，除了行为方面（响应时间）外，分析了心理生理措施（与事件相关的电位，耳皮活动，面部肌肉活动）。