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Title: Do negative mood states impact moral reasoning?
Authors: Barger, Brian (AUTHOR), Pitt Derryberry, W. (AUTHOR)
Source: Journal of Moral Education. Dec2013, Vol. 42 Issue 4, p443-459. 17p. 1 Chart, 2 Graphs.
Subjects: Mood (Psychology), Moral reasoning, Emotions & cognition, Defining Issues Test, Rationalism, Psychology
Abstract: This paper presents three studies exploring the relationship between emotional responses to classic cognitive developmental moral dilemmas and moral reasoning indices as measured by the Defining Issues Test (DIT). Each study indicated that certain moral dilemmas elicit varying levels of anger and sadness as compared to a neutral baseline. In each study, decreased moral reasoning was observed in those instances where reports in both sadness and anger were high following a dilemma. This did not occur, however, in those instances where only sadness or anger was high following a dilemma. Affective inductions prior to taking the DIT (study 3) did not impact trends beyond that found for individual moral dilemmas in studies 1 and 2. Although certain dilemmas elicited affective states that temporarily influenced reasoning, in general participants’ reasoning levels stayed consistent across dilemmas. Results are discussed in terms of the role of affect on the moral judgment process. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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