The Impact Of Self-resource Depletion On Moral Dilemma Decision-makin

Individuals must control themselves in order to maintain internal balance;however,selfcontrol consumes psychological energy.Baumeister’s self-control resource model believes that people have a limited amount of self-control resources,and when individuals utilize them to a certain extent,there is a risk of self-control depletion,as well as problems such as the failure of self-control in subsequent tasks.This study applied the CAN model to explore the impact and mechanism of self-resource depletion on individual moral dilemma decision-making through three experiments.It also examined whether the sense of control priming effectively attenuates the aftereffect of depletion.Experiment 1 recruited 108 subjects and used a single factor between-subject design(high/low self-resource loss)to investigate the differences in CAN parameters in moral dilemma decision-making between high and low self-resource groups;experiment 2 recruited 128 subjects and used a 2(high/low emotional stability)× 2(high/low self-resource depletion)two-factor between-subject design to examine differences in the effect of emotional stability traits on selfresource depletion on the CAN parameter of moral dilemma decision making;finally,experiment3 recruited 64 subjects and used a single factor between-subject design(high/low sense of control priming)to investigate whether the sense of control priming had an impact on the CAN parameters of moral dilemma decision-making among subjects with low emotional stability and high selfresource depletion.The results show that:(1)Self-resource depletion did affect individuals’ subsequent moral dilemma decision-making tasks.The overall action preferences of subjects in the high self-resource depletion group are significantly lower than those in the low self-resource depletion group.There is no significant difference between the two groups on moral consequence sensitivity and norm sensitivity.(2)For subjects with high emotional stability,there was no significant difference in their overall action preferences between high and low self-resource depletion conditions.In contrast,for subjects with low emotional stability,the overall action preference of the high self-resource depletion group was significantly lower than that of the low self-resource depletion group;there was no significant difference in the moral consequence sensitivity and norm sensitivity of selfresource depletion to between the two groups.(3)The overall action preference and norm sensitivity of the subjects in the high sense of control priming group were significantly higher than those in the low sense of control priming group,and there was no significant difference in the moral consequence sensitivity between the two groups.In conclusion,based on the CAN model,the overall action preference in moral dilemma decision-making is lower under high self-resource consumption.Individuals with low emotional stability have lower overall action preferences under high self-resource depletion.A high sense of control priming can effectively reduce the negative impact of self-resource depletion on the overall action preferences and moral sensitivity of individuals with low emotional stability.