Ego-depletion State,the Power's Influence On College Students' Moral Dilemma Judgment

Modern society,more and more moral dilemma,morality is often related to the vital interests of the people,People needs to be some conflict within inhibition when is make moral dilemma judgment,Thus loss of self-control resources,the individual is in a temporary ego-depletion state,and later in the self-control of performance will be worse.Power represents the control of the external environment,is the means to realize social benefit redistribution,if the moral judgment is for their own interests,then power will affect it.This study to college students as subjects,using E-crossing tasks to induce loss,through the power situation stories to start the individuals of different power levels,to explore the ego-depletion and the power dissipation effects on moral dilemma judgment.Experiment one to explore ego-depletion effect on the moral dilemma judgment;Experiment two discusses the ego-depletion condition,power impact on the moral dilemma judgment.The results showed that:(1)Different individuals of ego-depletion condition are much more willing to make moral choices,but high individual loss compared with low loss more moral choice;(2)High and low power individuals are more willing to choose utilitarian,individual power compared with low power choice more utilitarian,and significant difference;(3)High loss and low power individuals more willing to make moral choices,utilitarian choice low loss and high power individuals more willing to make.