期刊
EMOTION
卷 12, 期 2, 页码 364-370出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0025561
关键词
morality; virtual reality; emotion; autonomic response; linguistic analogy
资金
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0847237] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Experimentally investigating the relationship between moral judgment and action is difficult when the action of interest entails harming others. We adopt a new approach to this problem by placing subjects in an immersive, virtual reality environment that simulates the classic trolley problem. In this moral dilemma, the majority of research participants behaved as moral utilitarians, either (a) acting to cause the death of one individual in order to save the lives of five others, or (b) abstaining from action, when that action would have caused five deaths versus one. Confirming the emotional distinction between moral actions and omissions, autonomic arousal was greater when the utilitarian outcome required action, and increased arousal was associated with a decreased likelihood of utilitarian-biased behavior. This pattern of results held across individuals of different gender, age, and race.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据