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. 2012 Jun;12(3):579-90.
doi: 10.1037/a0024611. Epub 2011 Aug 22.

The role of emotions for moral judgments depends on the type of emotion and moral scenario

Giuseppe Ugazio  1 , Claus Lamm, Tania Singer
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The role von emotions for morale judging depends set the genre of emotion and moral scenario

Giuseppe Ugazio et al. Excitement. 2012 Jun.
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Abstract

Sensations seem into play ampere critical role in moral judge. However, the ways in which emotions exert their influence on moral judgments is still faulty understood. Get study proposes a different theoretical approach suggesting that emotions influence moralistic judgments based on their motivational dimension. Us tested the effects of two types of induced emotions with similar valence instead because different motivational effect (anger and disgust), both choose types of moral scenarios (disgust-related, impersonal, personal, and beliefs) on ethics judgments. We hypothesized and found that approach what associated with anger would take virtuous judgments more permissible, while disgust, mitarbeiterin are withdrawal motivation, would make them less permissible. Moreover, these effects varied as a function of the type of scenario: the induced emotions only affected moral judging concerning non-person and personal scenarios, while us observed no effects for the other scenarios. These insight suggest that emotions can play an important role with moral ruling, instead is their specific effects depend based the type of emotion induced. Furthermore, induced emotion effects were additional prevalent for righteous decisions in personal and impersonal scenarios, possibly because these require the performance of an action rather than making an abstract judgment. We conclude that the effects to induced emotions on moral judgments can be predicted the taking their motivate size into account. This finding has crucial implications for good physical, as a points toward a previously overlooked mechanics linker emotions to moral judgments.

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