A Research Of Happiness And Sadness Influence On College Students’ Moral Judgment

With the development of the society,moral judgment that is an important part of moral psychology is getting more and more attention of people.There are plenty of influence factors of moral judgment,and the mood is one of the important factors.Scholars at home and abroad studied how happiness and sadness which is two kinds of basic emotion to influence the moral judgment,but results were not consistent.And the most studies were made only with after induced emotions,but not considering the basis of the emotional level before.In addition,there is a lot of research on the impact of self-involvement on moral judgments.However,in the past,the interaction relationship between the emotions and the degree of self-involvement is relatively lacking.In addition,the study of explicit moral judgment is relatively more,but the study of the implicit moral judgments of emotion is relatively lacking.Therefore,this article from the happy,sad two basic emotions on the impact of moral judgments as the starting point combined with different levels of self-involvement of the moral situation on the explicit moral judgments to measure,with implicit association test to study the implicit moral judgments,combined with the measurement,to explore the emotional impact of moral judgments.This paper contains a pre-experiment and two formal experiments.228 students randomly selected a college in Chengdu were involved in three experiments.The purpose of pre-experiment is to verify the effectiveness of emotional-induced material.Happy,sad and neutral video materials are screened out as a formal experiment of emotional video-induced materials through the emotional assessment of the subjective report.In the experiment 1,the influence of emotion on the explicit moral judgment was examined by using the experimental model of video-induced emotion,the Moral Judgment Test(MJT)of China,and the Moral Judgment Test(MJT)of self-related version to explore the competent score and moral tendency.Experiment 2 examines the influence of emotion on the implicit moral judgment,using the experimental paradigm of video-induced emotion and implicit association test,through the IAT of moral vocabulary and expression picture in the two emotional-induced states of happiness and sadness.Conclusion 1: Compared with non-self-related moral judgment task,the moral judgment ability of college students is higher in self-related moral judgment task.Conclusion 2: The interaction between self-involvement and emotion is significant.In the context of non-self-related moral judgments,the moral ability to judge of happy college students is higher.But in the self-related moral judgment situation,the moral ability to judge of sad college students are higher.Conclusion 3: College students have a high moral tendency,and show a higher preference for high moral principles.Conclusion 4: College students’ implicit moral judgments are significantly influenced by emotional induced states.Compared with sad person,happy college students are more inclined to response faster in the implicit moral judgments.