Department of Psychology, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Department of Psychology, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Cognition. 2018 Oct;179:171-177. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.014. Epub 2018 Jun 29.
Although lay notions in normative ethics have previously been investigated within the framework of the dual-process interpretation of the terror management theory (TMT), meta-ethical beliefs (subjective vs. objective morality) have not been previously investigated within the same framework. In the present research, we primed mortality salience, shown to impair reasoning performance in previous studies, to see whether it inhibits subjectivist moral judgments in three separate experiments. In Experiment 3, we also investigated whether impaired reasoning performance indeed mediates the effect of mortality salience on subjectivism. The results of the three experiments consistently showed that people in the mortality salience group reported significantly less subjectivist responses than the control group, and impaired reasoning performance partially mediates it. Overall, the results are consistent with the dual-process interpretation of TMT and suggest that not only normative but also meta-ethical judgments can be explained by this model.
虽然在规范伦理中，朴素理论先前已经在恐怖管理理论（TMT）的双过程解释框架内得到了研究，但元伦理信念（主观与客观道德）在同一框架内尚未得到研究。在本研究中，我们启动了死亡凸显，这在先前的研究中被证明会损害推理表现，以观察它是否会在三个单独的实验中抑制主观主义道德判断。在实验 3 中，我们还研究了推理表现受损是否确实中介了死亡凸显对主观主义的影响。三个实验的结果一致表明，死亡凸显组的人报告的主观主义反应明显少于对照组，而推理表现受损部分中介了这种影响。总体而言，结果与 TMT 的双过程解释一致，并表明不仅规范判断，而且元伦理判断都可以用该模型来解释。
