Predictive cues elicit a liminal confirmation bias in the moral evaluation of real-world images.

ABSTRACT: Previous research suggested that predictive cues enhance the preference and reduce the response time for congruent targets during bivalent food evaluation, indicating a confirmation bias. Less is known about how prior processing affects subjective moral evaluation. Here, we used three different types of predictive cues to elicit directional vs. non-predictive prior processing and then asked the participants to perform moral evaluations on a continuous scale from -10 ("very immoral") to +10 ("very moral") with a diverse set of real-world images. Our experimental image database balanced the morality of image content and the volatility of the ratings based on the means and standard deviations in a preliminary study. Ratings, response times, and gaze positions were measured to examine the effe

SUBMITTER: Ma C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10902465 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature