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How Do Incidental Emotions Shape Our Moral Judgments?
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Presented by: Şevval Düzgün
Şevval Düzgün 1*Hasan Galip Bahçekapılı 2
1 Ege Üniversitesi, 2 ?stanbul Medipol Üniversitesi
In the moral psychology literature there are two basic views on how people make moral judgments: by calculating benefit and cost and paying attention to maximum benefit (Utilitarianism) or by reference to norms (Deontology). Gawronski et al. (2017) criticized the measurements that evaluate these two views on a single dimension in opposition to each other and put forward the CNI model. The CNI model is a computational model that measures sensitivity to the outcome (C), sensitivity to moral norms (N), and overall preference for action versus inaction (I) in response to moral dilemmas. In the present study, the effects of incidental emotions on moral judgments are examined through the CNI model. Participants (N=261) were randomly assigned to four different emotion groups (mirth, disgust, moral elevation, and neutral) and emotion manipulation was performed by watching the videos. Incidental emotions' effects on C, N, I paradigms were analyzed via multinomial processing tree(MPT) modeling. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that incidental mirth increased the N parameter scores. Although incidental disgust did not have a significant effect on the C, N, I parameters, when the disgust manipulation group was divided into high and low disgust sensitivity groups, the I and N parameters of the group with high disgust sensitivity were found to be significantly higher. On the other hand, there was no significant effect of incidental elevation on C, N, I parameters. The results of the current study are discussed with reference to previous findings in the moral judgment literature.
Keywords: moral judgments, CNI model, incidental emotions, mirth, disgust, elevation.