Divergent effects of different positive emotions on moral judgment

Strohminger, Nina; Lewis, Richard L.; Meyer, David E.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.12.012

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“…Interestingly, some data dovetail with this rationale. It was shown, for instance, that specific positive emotion manipulation (e.g., mirth) increased moral utilitarianism (Strohminger, Lewis, & Meyer, 2011). The perspective of sacrificing one so as to save more people generates unpleasant feelings that generally lead to a non-utilitarian response.…”

Section: Causal Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interestingly, previous research showed that experimentally induced positive emotions led to greater propensity for utilitarianism (Strohminger et al, 2011) although that class of moral dilemmas does not make it possible to distinguish between correct and incorrect judgments (see Bartels & Pizarro, 2011). The class of scenarios used in the present research, by contrast, leaves no doubts as to the normative standard of moral evaluation, and our data clearly showed that the occurrence of incorrect (positive) feelings in contexts of explicit moral violations leads to abnormal patterns of moral judgment.…”

Section: Beyond Emotional Callousness As a Source Of Moral Impairmentmentioning

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The sadistic trait predicts minimization of intention and causal responsibility in moral judgment

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Djeriouat

2016

Cognition

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Section: Causal Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

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The sadistic trait predicts minimization of intention and causal responsibility in moral judgment

Trémolière

Djeriouat

2016

Cognition

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“…Indeed, psychologists have identified a number of emotions that seem to be specifically "moral" in nature, including guilt, shame, gratitude, and contempt (Haidt, 2003). While there has been no documentation, to our knowledge, of a corresponding suite of "modal emotions," such emotions, if they do exist, would seem to play a less significant role in modal judgment than the role played by emotion in moral judgment (Russell & Giner-Sorolla, 2011;Strohminger, Lewis, & Meyer, 2011). Thus, common patterns of reasoning across the two domains might help determine the proportion of variance in moral judgment that can be accounted for by seemingly nonaffective processes.…”

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Cognitive parallels between moral judgment and modal judgment

Shtulman

Tong

2013

Psychon Bull Rev

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A central question in the study of moral psychology is how immediate intuition interacts with more thoughtful deliberation in the generation of moral judgments. The present study sheds additional light on this question by comparing adults' judgments of moral permissibility with their judgments of physical possibility-a form of judgment that also involves the coordination of intuition and deliberation (Shtulman, Cognitive Development 24:293-309, 2009). Participants (N = 146) were asked to judge the permissibility of 16 extraordinary actions (e.g., Is it ever morally permissible for an 80-year-old woman to have sex with a 20-year-old man?) and the possibility of 16 extraordinary events (e.g., Will it ever be physically possible for humans to bring an extinct species back to life?). Their tendency to judge the extraordinary events as possible was predictive of their tendency to judge the extraordinary actions as permissible, even when controlling for disgust sensitivity. Moreover, participants' justification and response latency patterns were correlated across domains. Taken together, these findings suggest that modal judgment and moral judgment may be linked by a common inference strategy, with some individuals focusing on why actions/events that do not occur cannot occur, and others focusing on how those same actions/events could occur.

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“…For example, tackling the question of divergent properties of discrete positive emotions directly, and showing that their differential effects resulted from differing social properties, rather than shared general Positive Affectivity, Strohminger, Lewis and Meyer (2011) demonstrated that mirth (feeling of gladness and merriment, especially when expressed by laughter) and elevation (feeling of warmth and expansion when observing another person behaving well), as two distinct positive emotions, led to distinct and differentiated moral judgments.…”

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Everyday happiness: Gifting and eating as everyday activities that influence general positive affect and discrete positive emotions

Hurling¹,

Linley²,

Dovey³

et al. 2015

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Positive psychology interventions have tended to be intentional cognitive and / or behavioural activities, specifically designed by researchers to increase happiness and wellbeing. In everyday life, however, people naturally undertake activities to increase their happiness and wellbeing. In this study, we examine and compare gifting and eating as two types of everyday activity that influence Positive Affect and so also happiness and wellbeing. Two hundred participants were allocated to four groups to examine the impact of gifting and eating, both individually and combined, relative to a control group, on happiness and wellbeing. Results show that giving a desirable food (ice cream) to another person as a gift increases Positive Affect but not discrete positive emotions, whereas both eating and giving an ice cream as a gift increase both Positive Affect and discrete positive emotions. The discussion focuses on the role of everyday activities in enhancing Positive Affect with the accumulative potential to increase everyday happiness.

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Divergent effects of different positive emotions on moral judgment

Cited by 141 publications

References 18 publications

The sadistic trait predicts minimization of intention and causal responsibility in moral judgment

The sadistic trait predicts minimization of intention and causal responsibility in moral judgment

Cognitive parallels between moral judgment and modal judgment

Everyday happiness: Gifting and eating as everyday activities that influence general positive affect and discrete positive emotions

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