The Differential Performance Of College Students' Moral Judgment From The Perspective Of Self And Others

Moral judgment is a perennial topic in the area of moral psychology.Group moral concept is closely related to social pattern.As the most successful localization concept to describe Chinese social reality,differential mode of association has a profound impact on Chinese.Previous studies have pointed out that intuitive judgment and reflective judgment often correspond to different choice tendencies.What influence will intuitive judgment and reflective judgment produce under the differential mode of association that is unique to Chinese people? In addition,some researchers have found that different perspectives tend to produce different levels of decision conflict and judgment results.So how do different types of moral judgment and the differential mode of association affect moral judgment from the perspective of self and other? No previous research has examined moral judgment from three perspectives.In this study,two experiments will be conducted to investigate how interpersonal differential mode of association,types of moral judgment and different perspectives affect college students' moral judgments.In two studies,we invited college students to be our subjects.Imitating former method of combining time pressure with cognitive load to manipulate the types of moral judgment,we used trolley dilemma and footbridge dilemma as the materials for two experiments.From the perspective of self or other,both studies used mixed designs of 3(differential order: relative,acquaintance,stranger)×2(moral judgment type: intuition,reflection)to do the research.The choice in dilemma and the rating of moral degree in the situation were used as dependent variables to examine moral judgments.The results showed that :(1)From self-perspective,the subjects' willingness to help the character in differential order was relative > acquaintance > stranger,and the moral rating was relative < acquaintance < stranger.When faced with intuitive judgment,individuals were more inclined to help.And the helpful behavior at the acquaintance level was significantly more than faced with reflective judgment.There was no significant difference at the level of relative and stranger between intuitive and reflective judgment.(2)From other-perspective,the subjects' willingness to help was relative > acquaintance > stranger,and moral rating was family member >acquaintance > stranger.When faced with intuitive judgment,the individual's moral rating of helpful behavior was higher,especially at the level of relative.There was no significant difference at the level of acquaintance and stranger between intuitive and reflective judgment.(3)The willingness of self-perspective to help the relative and the acquaintance is higher than that of other-perspective,and the willingness of selfperspective to help the stranger is not much different from or even lower than that of other-perspective.And there is different performance in the two dilemmas.