The Role of Moral Commitments in Moral Judgment

被引:75
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作者
Lombrozo, Tania [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Psychol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
关键词
Moral judgment; Moral reasoning; Moral intuition; Moral dilemmas; Trolley car problems; Consequentialism; Deontology; INTUITIONS; PREFERENCES; VALUES; JOINT;
D O I
10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01013.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Traditional approaches to moral psychology assumed that moral judgments resulted from the application of explicit commitments, such as those embodied in consequentialist or deontological philosophies. In contrast, recent work suggests that moral judgments often result from unconscious or emotional processes, with explicit commitments generated post hoc. This paper explores the intermediate position that moral commitments mediate moral judgments, but not through their explicit and consistent application in the course of judgment. An experiment with 336 participants finds that individuals vary in the extent to which their moral commitments are consequentialist or deontological, and that this variation is systematically but imperfectly related to the moral judgments elicited by trolley car problems. Consequentialist participants find action in trolley car scenarios more permissible than do deontologists, and only consequentialists moderate their judgments when scenarios that typically elicit different intuitions are presented side by side. The findings emphasize the need for a theory of moral reasoning that can accommodate both the associations and dissociations between moral commitments and moral judgments.
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页码:273 / 286
页数:14
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