The Role of Temperature in Moral Decision-Making: Limited Reproducibility.

ABSTRACT: Temperature is one of the major environmental factors that people are exposed to on a daily basis, often in conditions that do not afford control. It is known that heat and cold can influence a person's productivity and performance in simple tasks. With respect to social cognition, it has also been suggested that temperature impacts on relatively high-level forms of decision-making. For instance, previous research demonstrated that cold temperature promotes utilitarian judgment in a moral dilemma task. This effect could be due to psychological processing, when a cool temperature primes a set of internal representations (associated with "coldness"). Alternatively, the promotion of utilitarian judgment in cold conditions could be due to physiological interference from temperature, impeding o

SUBMITTER: Sudo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506165 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature