Boccia Maddalena, Verde Paola, Angelino Gregorio, Carrozzo Paolo, Vecchi Diego, Piccardi Laura, Colangeli Stefano, Cordellieri Pierluigi, Ferlazzo Fabio, Giannini Anna Maria
Department of Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy; Neuropsychology Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia of Rome, Italy.
Italian Air Force Experimental Flight Centre, Aerospace Medicine Department, Pratica di Mare, Italy.
Neurosci Lett. 2017 Jul 27;654:80-85. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.06.036. Epub 2017 Jun 21.
Moral sense is defined as a feeling of fairness or unfairness of an action that knowingly causes harm to people other than the subject. It is crucial in determining human behavior and becomes pivotal in operational environments. Here we assessed whether professional daily life experience in an operational environment affects moral judgment by asking 41 military pilots of the Italian Air Force (P) and 69 controls (C) to solve 40 moral dilemmas. We found that P gave more morally acceptable utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas. Interestingly, men and women in P equally accepted utilitarian resolutions of moral dilemmas, whereas in C women were less prone than men to accept utilitarian responses. We conclude that professional daily life experience of P, in an operational environment, affects moral judgment and mitigates gender predisposition towards moral dilemmas.
道德感被定义为对明知会对行为主体以外的人造成伤害的行为的公平或不公平的感觉。它在决定人类行为方面至关重要，并在作战环境中变得至关重要。在这里，我们通过让41名意大利空军飞行员（P）和69名对照组人员（C）解决40个道德困境，评估了作战环境中的职业日常生活经历是否会影响道德判断。我们发现，P组对道德困境给出了更多道德上可接受的功利主义回应。有趣的是，P组中的男性和女性同样接受道德困境的功利主义解决方案，而在C组中，女性比男性更不容易接受功利主义回应。我们得出结论，P组在作战环境中的职业日常生活经历会影响道德判断，并减轻性别对道德困境的倾向。
