The Influence Of Sense Of Power On Moral Judgment

Moral judgment refers to the process in which people judge the good and bad,right and wrong,right and wrong of their own or others' behaviors according to certain behavioral standards.Many studies have shown that different sense of power leads to different moral judgments.Individuals with high sense of power use abstract thinking to make judgments based on moral principles,that is,individuals with different sense of power have different ways of representing information when making moral judgments.The core of the construal level theory is that individuals have different ways of representing information and adopt different ways of thinking in processing information,thus forming different judgments in moral judgment.If we can determine the relationship between the sense of power and the level of construal,we can promote the convergence of moral judgment of individuals with different sense of power by manipulating the expression of information or the level of explanation of individuals.The study included one preliminary experiment and two experiments.In Preliminary experiments,the interpretation level of individuals with natural power was measured by using behavior recognition scale,and SPSS21.0 was used for analysis to determine the relationship between individuals' sense of natural power and their interpretation level.Experiment manipulated the psychological distance by manipulating the person,so as to manipulate the individual's interpretation level,and explored whether the individual's interpretation level could be manipulated to promote the moral judgment convergence of individuals with high and low sense of power.In experiment 2,by manipulating the expression mode of moral judgment materials,the material of moral judgment is divided into three types of expression:concrete,general and abstract,to explore whether the expression mode of moral judgment materials can be manipulated to promote the convergence of individuals with high and low sense of power in moral judgment.One result showed that individuals with a high sense of natural power had a higher level of explanation than those with a low sense of natural power.The results of experiment 1 show that: compared with the third person condition,the individuals with high sense of power accept the moral judgment more in the first person condition.Moreover,in the first-person condition,there is no significant difference in the acceptance of moral judgment between individuals with high sense of power andthose with low sense of power.The results of experiment 2 show that under the condition of abstract expression,individuals with high sense of power accept moral judgment more.Under the condition of specific expression,individuals with low sense of power have higher acceptance of moral judgment.Therefore,three conclusions are drawn in this study :(1)in the context of natural power,the explanatory level of power sense of individuals is related to that of individuals with a sense of power.Compared with individuals with a low sense of power,individuals with a high sense of power have a high explanatory level.(2)manipulating individuals' interpretation level can promote the convergence of moral judgments of individuals with high and low sense of power.(3)when the way of expression of moral judgment materials matches the way of information representation of individuals with a sense of power,individuals' acceptance of moral judgment is higher.