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Moral Dilemmas Are Influenced By Decision Types On Cognitive Dissonance Emotions

Posted on:2022-02-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z R LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2505306488455324Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Moral judgment is important basis of adjusting individual social behavior and moral judgment standard present a diverse group and individual independence,swelling in the informationization of the present society,people on a large scale through the network to participate in moral judgment,in the form of the public to break the geographical boundaries,across the time interval,the driver the change of standard of moral judgment,unethical behavior to the attention of people never heard.In response to the frequent occurrence of unethical events and behaviors,psychologists began to actively focus on unethical behaviors and psychology.Moral dilemmas cause inconsistency between individual’s attitude and behavior due to the fact that situational choices cannot be taken into account,which will lead to strong emotional response and cognitive dissonance.Previous studies have explored the emotional experience and the generation and mitigation of cognitive dissonance caused by moral dilemmas.According to the existing literature,it is found that there is a close relationship between moral judgment and cognitive dissonance.Researchers have studied cognitive dissonance by setting different moral dilemma situations.According to the existing research on the decision-making types of dilemmas,there are mainly animal and human decision-making types at present,and no systematic research has been formed yet.Therefore,based on the existing research,this study starts with the types of moral dilemmas to explore the influence of the types of moral dilemmas to individual decision making and the influence of the types of decisions to cognitive dissonance.This study consists of two parts: Study 1 explores the influence of the types of moral dilemmas on individual decision making.Research results show that animals are classification effective decision-making types and humans are type situation,tasks are individual decision types will lead to a greater degree of mood swings,the reason is that human being decision types in the moral dilemma,inversion of ontogenesis more attitude,more inclined to utility,and animals are decision types in the moral dilemma,ontogenesis attitude inversion ratio is relatively small.In study 2,the cognitive dissonance emotional questionnaire was first developed to determine the dimensions and items,and the reliability of the cognitive dissonance quantitative research questionnaire was tested.Based on the results of the experiment,the decision-making styles of the moral dilemma caused by cognitive dissonance mood,found that animals are decision-making types and humans are type of cognitive dissonance emotional differences,human being decision types in psychological discomfort,negative emotions,positive emotional difference is more significant than animals are decisionmaking type.The cognitive dissonance caused by moral dilemmas is manifested in the increase of psychological stress and negative emotion,while the decline of positive emotion,which can play a role of auxiliary explanation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Moral dilemma, Cognitive dissonance emotions, Moral judgment
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