The Interplay Between Absolute Language and Moral Reasoning on Endorsement of Moral Foundations

Blankenship, Kevin; Craig, Traci Y.; Machacek, Marielle G.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.569380

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“…In their article, the Interplay between Absolute Language and Moral Reasoning on Endorsement of Moral Foundations, Blankenship et al (2021) suspected that the language of scale items may have influenced the results of their study. They point toward a majority of topics used to assess moral reasoning to be closely related to the Care/harm factor of moral foundations with topics or issues including killing, euthanasia, betrayal and deception.…”

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“…This includes the debate over construct definitions of empathy and compassion, ( Cuff et al, 2016 ; Bloom, 2017 ; Hall and Schwartz, 2019 ). Still further questions arise on the validity of our assessments in general, and how the language used in these assessments may contribute to our results, ( Blankenship et al, 2021 ). But perhaps the most important question pertains to our understanding of how VR experiences can possibly contribute to pro-social behavior.…”

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Expanding the empirical study of virtual reality beyond empathy to compassion, moral reasoning, and moral foundations

Dunivan,

Mann,

Collins

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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This study utilizes a controlled experimental design to investigate the influence of a virtual reality experience on empathy, compassion, moral reasoning, and moral foundations. With continued debate and mixed results from previous studies attempting to show relationships between virtual reality and empathy, this study takes advantage of the technology for its ability to provide a consistent, repeatable experience, broadening the scope of analysis beyond empathy. A systematic literature review identified the most widely used and validated moral psychology assessments for the constructs, and these assessments were administered before and after the virtual reality experience. The study is comprised of two pre-post experiments with student participants from a university in the United States. The first experiment investigated change in empathy and moral foundations among 44 participants, and the second investigated change in compassion and moral reasoning among 69 participants. The results showed no significant change in empathy nor compassion, but significant change in moral reasoning from personal interest to post-conventional stages, and significant increase in the Care/harm factor of moral foundations. By testing four of the primary constructs of moral psychology with the most widely used and validated assessments in controlled experiments, this study attempts to advance our understanding of virtual reality and its potential to influence human morality. It also raises questions about our self-reported assessment tools and provides possible new insights for the constructs examined.

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Section: Overall Discussion and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the empirical study of virtual reality beyond empathy to compassion, moral reasoning, and moral foundations

Dunivan,

Mann,

Collins

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…For further studies, we placed the English versions of episodes set in OSF that were marked to the episodes that included Japanese and/or Asian-specific names and rules. Several previous studies suggested that the moral judgments are affected by wordings (e.g., “always”) and framings 49 – 52 . The present study did not confirm whether the episodes had clear thematic and linguistic distinctions between moral categories.…”

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Different judgment frameworks for moral compliance and moral violation

Shirai,

Watanabe

2024

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In recent decades, the field of moral psychology has focused on moral judgments based on some moral foundations/categories (e.g., harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity). When discussing the moral categories, however, whether a person judges moral compliance or moral violation has been rarely considered. We examined the extent to which moral judgments are influenced by each other across moral categories and explored whether the framework of judgments for moral violation and compliance would be different. For this purpose, we developed the episodes set for moral and affective behaviors. For each episode, participants evaluated valence, arousal, morality, and the degree of relevance to each of the Haidt's 5 moral foundations. The cluster analysis showed that the moral compliance episodes were divided into three clusters, whereas the moral violation episodes were divided into two clusters. Also, the additional experiment indicated that the clusters might not be stable in time. These findings suggest that people have different framework of judgments for moral compliance and moral violation.

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The Interplay Between Absolute Language and Moral Reasoning on Endorsement of Moral Foundations

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Expanding the empirical study of virtual reality beyond empathy to compassion, moral reasoning, and moral foundations

Expanding the empirical study of virtual reality beyond empathy to compassion, moral reasoning, and moral foundations

Different judgment frameworks for moral compliance and moral violation

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