The Influence Of Emotion Differentiation And Disgust On Moral Judgment

The theoretical model of moral judgments had gone through the development process from the rational decision model to the intuitive processing model and then to the double processing model,the emerging of embodied theory in recent years provides a new perspective for the study of moral judgments.This view had been widely and fully confirmed,but few studies explored the individual differences of this influence.Emotion differentiation ability or the ability accurately distinguish between emotional experience is an important skill,predecessors study showed that it is closely related with individual mental health.In this paper,I started with one aspect of body cognition,that is,examine the influence of disgust on moral judgments,and explore the individual differences of this influence,trying to find ways to reduce the influence of disgust on moral judgments.I subdivided the disgust into moral disgust and non-moral disgust.In addition,it is the focus of the researchers to judge the differences and reason of people's choice tendency in moral dilemma.This paper explored the relationship between different choice tendency of judgment from the perspective of the ability of emotional differentiation.In this study,I used Eprime technique to investigate the influence of disgust and individual differences on moral judgments and moral dilemmas.In experiment 1,two factors were used in the experiment design:3(start-up type:moral aversion,non-moral disgust,neutral condition)× 2(emotional discrimination ability level:high and low).The start-up type and the ability of emotional differentiation are the inter-subject variables,and the dependent variable is the severity of the moral judgment and the choice of moral dilemma.In experiment 2,subjects with low ability of emotion discrimination were selected,and they were divided into three groups:start-up type(moral aversion,non-moral disgust,moral disgust)× 2(training:yes,no).The starting type is the inter-subject variable;the training is the subject's internal variables,the dependent variable is the severity of the moral judgment and the selection of the moral dilemma task.Experiment 3 used 3(start type:moral aversion stimulus phrases,non-moral aversion stimulus phrases,neutral stimulus phrases)× 2(emotional discrimination ability:high,low)Factor experiment design.The start-up type and emotion-distinguishing ability are inter-subject variable and the dependent variable is the response time and correct number of the task of completing the parity check.Through the above empirical research,the following conclusions can be drawn:Firstly,Disgusted feelings make the moral judgments of individuals more severe.Secondly,people with high emotion differentiation ability can reduce the influence of disgust on moral judgments,and the result effect is better on moral disgust than non-moral disgust.In addition,people with high emotion differentiation may be related to obligatory moral judgment,and people with low emotion differentation may be related to utilitarian moral judgment.Thirdly,The Emotion differentiation ability can be improved by training,and the degree of harshness of moral judgment after arousal start is less than that before improvement.Fourthly,The difference of the ability of differentiating arousal from emotion is different from that of different aversion.The cognition plays an important role in the role of emotion-distinguishing ability.