The Role Of Two Regulatory Factors Played In The Relationship Between Emotion And Moral Judgement-Emotion Differentiation And Moral Rational Training

Study of contemporary moral psychology thought that the relationship between emotion and moral judgment is very important. Some points out cognitive is not the only one factors. And there are a lot of experimental studies have found that different emotion is different to impact of moral judgment. Such as anger and disgust, they lead to more severe moral judgments of others, and guilt and shame cause understanding when evaluate moral events. All of these let us realize the important role of emotion in moral judgment. On the other hand, many researchers pointed out that between emotion and moral judgment, there are a lot of intermediary and regulating factors, such as self involved degree, emotion regulation, emotion recognition, emotion differentiation, the difference of ethics standards, and so on. To some extent these variables can adjusted the relationship between emotion and moral judgment. Therefore, go to further investigate of this field, there is possibility that we can control our emotion more skillful and affect moral judgment less. In this field, many researchers study disgust emotions, but they do less researchers on anger. Therefore, we choose two factor, emotion differentiation and mood to distinguish an ethics, the difference of ethics standards. In the first experiment, we respectively study the effect of emotion differentiation that it do on the relationship between angry and moral judgment. In the second experiment, firstly, we set the moral rational training according to the opinion that individual has different standards to evaluate moral events. Usually, some traditional rules which individual held by in the modern society is prejudiced and seems unreasonable, we try to use a new standard of ethics to replace the original one, which seems more reasonable in the modern society. We call this procedure as moral rational training. Then we study the role of moral rational training in the relationship between anger and moral judgment.The results of the first study show that, anger makes the results of moral judgment results more severe; the people who have emotion differentiation ability will make the severity index of the result moral judgment lower than the one who in low emotion differentiation.The results of the second study show that the moral rational training is able to adjust influence that the anger to moral judgment. The one who accept no moral rational training make the result of moral judgment more serious than that who accept moral rational training.