The Influence Of Power Perception And Internal/External Groups On Moral Judgment

Power and moral judgement has always been a concern of psychologists.Power is a control of important resources,and moral judgment is a judgement based on certain standards for the occurrence,process or result of moral events.This study introduces the theory of human and environment into the research field of power,and further discusses the moral judgment from the point of view of the perspective of power perception,at the same time,this study will take into account the relationship between the protagonist and the judge,and further discuss the factors that affect the moral judgment.The purpose of this study is to enrich and enrich the research on moral judgment by exploring the joint influence of power perception and internal and external groups on moral judgment,which makes the research results closer to the reality.The first is to measure the idiosyncratic power and moral judgment mode of 62 college students by using the personal power questionnaire and moral judgment questionnaire,and to explore whether the trait power will affect the moral judgment.The results show that the subjects of different trait powers have different ways of thinking in moral judgment,and there are significant differences.That is,the subjects with low trait power tend to be more inclined to the result oriented moral thinking way to conduct moral judgment.However,subjects with high trait power tended to conduct moral judgments in a rule-based way of moral thinking.Study two used the personal power perception questionnaire,word search task and moral judgment questionnaire to measure the 159 college students' trait power and moral judgment mode,to explore the influence of the matching of trait power and situational power on moral judgment.The results show that the matching degree of individual power perception affects moral judgment.Under the low situation power,the subjects of individual power perception matching(the subjects with low trait power)tend to adopt the result(cognitive processing)oriented thinking way to conduct moraljudgment.The subjects of individual power perception mismatch(the subjects of high trait power)tend to adopt the rule of thinking(emotional intuition)oriented way of thinking to conduct moral judgment.Under the high situational power,the subjects of the individual power perception match(the high trait power of the subject)and the mismatched subjects tend to adopt the rule of thinking(emotional intuition)oriented way of thinking to conduct moral judgment.However,compared to the subjects of individual power perception matching subjects(that is,the subjects of high trait power),the subjects of individual power perception matching subjects(low trait power subjects)have a greater tendency.In study three,the personal power sense questionnaire,the word search task and the moral judgment questionnaire designed by the internal and external groups were used to measure the matching degree of the power perception of 160 college students and the moral judgments of the internal and external groups,to explore the joint influence of power perception matching and internal / external groups on moral judgment.The results show that the interaction between power perception and internal / external groups plays a significant role in moral judgment: When the low trait power is under the low situational power,compared with the members of the outside group,the subjects' moral judgment of the members of the internal group is more inclined to take the rule oriented thinking mode;When the low trait power subjects were under the high situational power,there was no significant difference in moral judgment between the internal group members and the external group members;When the high trait power is under the low situational power and the high situational power,the members of the inner / outer group take a rule oriented thinking way to conduct moral judgment,but compared to the members of the internal group,the rule orientation of the members of the group is stronger.