Effect of subclinical depression on moral judgment dilemmas: a process dissociation approach.

ABSTRACT: Dual-process theory of moral judgment indicates that moral decision-making is guided by emotional or cognitive processing, competing with each other. While emotional processing overwhelms cognitive processing, individuals preferentially make deontological judgments. Further, while cognitive processing dominates emotional processing, individuals preferentially make utilitarian judgments. This theory predicts that individuals with subclinical depression associated with emotion regulation deficits may deliver more utilitarian judgments. Experiment 1 indicated that higher depressive symptoms predicted utilitarian judgment. However, previous studies have not determined why individuals with subclinical depression make a utilitarian judgment. Thus, Experiment 2 employed the process-dissociation a

SUBMITTER: Yin X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9681861 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature