Moral Judgments Depend on Information Presentation: Evidence for Recency and Transfer Effects.

ABSTRACT: Moral judgements are crucial for social life and rely on the analysis of the agent's intention and the outcome of the agent's action. The current study examines to the influence of how the information is presented on moral judgement. The first experiment investigated the effects of the order in which intention and outcome information was presented. The results showed that participants relied more on the last presented information, suggesting a recency effect. The second experiment required participants to make two types of judgments (wrongness vs. punishment) and manipulated the order of the requested two types of judgments. Results showed an asymmetrical transfer effect whereby punishment judgements, but not wrongness judgements were affected by the order of presentation. This asymmetrica

SUBMITTER: Leloup L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194526 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature