Moral judgements of fairness-related actions are flexibly updated to account for contextual information.

ABSTRACT: In everyday life we are constantly updating our moral judgements as we learn new information. However, this judgement updating process has not been systematically studied. We investigated how people update their moral judgements of fairness-related actions of others after receiving contextual information regarding the deservingness of the action recipient. Participants (N = 313) observed a virtual 'Decision-maker' share a portion of $10 with a virtual 'Receiver'. Participants were aware that the Decision-maker made these choices knowing the Receiver's previous offer to another person. Participants first made a context-absent judgement of the Decision-maker's offer to the Receiver, and then a subsequent context-present judgement of the same offer after learning the Receiver's previous offer

SUBMITTER: Andrejevic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576593 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature