The Roles Played By Emotion And Cognition In Moral Judgment Of Different Moral Domains

The exact roles played by emotion and cognition in moral judgment are hotly debated. Social Intuitionist Model argues that moral judgment is primarily driven by moral emotions and moral intuitions, cognition only play a post hoc role to justify the decision made by moral intuitions and emotion. However, dual-process model of moral judgment proposes that both emotion and cognition are crucial in making moral judgment. Still, others scholars suggest that emotion and cognition play different roles in different moral domains. These theoretical inconsistency may be resulted in the ignorance of the differences among different moral domains or the ingorance of the influence of cognition on moral judgment. There are few studies examined the interaction between emotion and cognition simultaneously. What’s more, most of these studies are conducted in western countries.To examine the interaction between emotion and cognition in different moral domains, Study1adopted survey method under Chinese culture background to investigate whether anger and disgust are only elicited by violation in harm and purity moral domain, respectively. Study2combined emotion priming and cognitive load manipulation to investigate roles played by emotion and cognition in the moral judgment of different moral domains. The results show that:(1) the specific relationship between moral domains and moral emotions still hold under Chinese culture background;(2) elicited emotions have no impact on the moral judgment in both harm and purity moral domains, however, the moral judgment under different cognitive load is different:participants made more severe moral judgment under low cognitive load than under high cognitive load condition. The results provide new evidence for dual process model in moral judgment...