The Mechanism Of Action Of Emotional Factors In College Students' Moral Judgment

Objective: To investigate students moral judgment response tendencies indifferent emotional arousal state. To explore the role of emotions in moraljudgment, the intuitive emotional related with moral situation and individualwaking up previously.Object: Recruiting of61undergraduate students voluntarily take part in thetest, involved28males and33females, using completely random sampling method,the selected subjects are medical students.Methods: This study mainly uses the classic tram dilemma story as a materialto examine the individual’s moral judgment tendencies. Studies have found thatindividuals tend to choose to sacrifice a classic tram plight to save five others,according to the interests of the event, the results to judge, to make utilitarianjudgments. We believe that the tram plight emotions and feelings involved in moraljudgments, and in some treatments, the individual may tend to make thenon-utilitarian judgment. The experiment will be through the adjustment andcontrol of the environment of the dilemma of the story to examine the mechanismof action of the intuition of emotion in moral judgment. First, the experimentby reducing can save the number to reduce the cognitive control, thus emphasizingthe intuitive emotional to validate moral judgments, whether emotion work.Secondly, to wake up calm, happy, sad three emotional state of the individual’semotional state, namely, the intuitive emotions triggered by the non-moralsituations of moral judgment mechanism.Results: Intuitive emotional and cognitive control common role in moraljudgment. The tram dilemma type of reaction were differences in the number ofworkers was significantly (p<0.01). Use of a workers as a reference, when therepairman human2,3,4,5and1to compare the different emotional arousal statethe number of maintenance workers were significant response differences in thecalm group (p<0.0125),the happy group (p<0.0125). When emotionality were sad, thenumber of maintenance workers and one person in four or five for comparison, theresponse differences were significant (p<0.0125). This indicates that with thechange of the moral situation, the number of rescued people increasing, mode ofmoral judgment is change from non-utilitarianism to utilitarian.Under certain conditions, different emotional arousal state would be moraljudgments impact. Under three of five different levels of emotional arousal effects of the test reaction, the number of workers in2,3personal emotions the impactof differences in response were significant (p <0.05). Quiet group as the referencegroup to examine the response differences were sad to wake up and pleased to wakeup. The repairman number was test reaction of the impact of differences to3:00calm and sad emotional wake significant (<0.025); maintenance workers number2:00calm and sad emotional wake-up phase comparison, was test reaction of the impactof differences significant first of all (p<0.025), calm or happy emotional stateof the moral judgments of the individual had no significant effect.Conclusion:(1) Intuitive emotional and cognitive control act on moraljudgment results through a competitive: scenarios to stimulate the intuitiveemotional responses than cognitive control the response of individuals to makea non-utilitarian judgment, on the contrary, the individual to make utilitarianjudgments.(2) The sad emotional state would be influential in moral judgment, calm orglad emotional state does not affect the moral judgment.(3) The effect of individual emotional state is only expressed in the mediumcognitive situation, which in absolute utilitarian moral situation (cognitivecontrol play a decisive role) and non-utilitarian moral situation (from theintuitive emotional decisive role), has little effect.