The Influence Of Emotions And Analytical Thinking For Moral Judgment

The purpose is to check whether there is a moral intuition；Whether emotions will affectmoral intuition or not；Whether analytical thinking will impact on moral judgment；analyticalthinking started will affect the moral intuition.The subjects are490college students in Ludong university.100subjects for preliminaryexperimental study.40people in first research in total. There are120students was studied inresearch two,40people in each mood state. And150and80students respectively in researchthree and research four.The Process:This experiments mainly adopts the paradigm of random response, the taskof moral judgment was arranged randomly by using eprime2.0. After that, the participator willfinished the experiment task within the allotted time. The theoretical background of this studywas social instinct model, the core idea of the model is intuitive processing is the most basicprocess of moral judgment, which means that the series of moral judgment process isunconscious, fast, without effort, and produced by moral intuitions. Only when there is aconflict among kinds of intuitions, there will be a moral reasoning, which produced byconscious control and hardworking. If reasoning process is also has an effect on theunconscious level, whether it will affect the moral intuition, this article will discuss anddesign the following four studies. Study1is based on the participators′random response aboutthe experiment task, if participants accuracy is significantly higher than0.5level,it provedthat the moral intuition exists in people. Study2increased mood starts on the basis of study1,it means to start the sadness, disgust or neutral mood before the participators in moraljudgment, and then let the participants to carry on the moral intuition, in order to work outthree kinds of emotional effect on moral judgment. Study3mainly uses the questionnairesurvey to explore moral absolution and relativism influence on moral reasoning. Study4using eprime2.0program, start the analytical thinking of moral absolutism and relativismfirstly, then examine its impact on moral intuition.Result Conclusion:(1) The experimental results of study1show that the participantsmake a moral judgment accuracy is significantly higher than0.5level of opportunity. Inspectthe existence of directly moral judgment； (2) The experimental results of study2show that when people in the dislike, sadness andneutral state, the accuracy is still higher than0.5level, disgust and sadness of moral intuitionjudgment accuracy is significantly higher than the neutral emotions. Emotions have an effecton moral intuition.(3) The experimental results of study3show that moral absolutism makes moraljudgments more extreme, moral relativism makes moral judgment more tending to themiddle.(4) There is a significant differences between moral absolutism start and moral relativismstart in the aspect of moral judgment accuracy. Moral absolutism can enhance the moralintuition, while moral relativism can weaken the moral intuition.