DysCo Lab, Paris Nanterre University, Nanterre, France.
EA7352, Nimes University, Nimes, France.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2021 Jun;74(6):981-990. doi: 10.1177/17470218211001547. Epub 2021 Mar 26.
The application of framing effects in the field of moral judgement has offered a golden opportunity to assess the reliability of people's moral judgements and decisions. To date, however, these studies are still scarce and they suffer from multiple methodological issues. Therefore, this study aims to provide further insights into the reliability of moral judgements while fixing these methodological shortcomings. In this study, we employed the classic trolley dilemma moral decision-making paradigm to determine the extent to which moral decisions are susceptible to framing effects. A total of 1,040 participants were included in the study. The data revealed that choices of participants did not significantly differ between the two frames. Equivalence tests confirmed that the associated effect size was very small. Further exploratory analyses revealed an unplanned interaction between the framing effect and the target of the framing manipulation. This result became from marginally statistically significant to insignificant following different sensitivity analyses. The implications and limitations of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.
框架效应在道德判断领域的应用为评估人们道德判断和决策的可靠性提供了一个绝佳的机会。然而，到目前为止，这些研究仍然很少，并且存在多种方法学问题。因此，本研究旨在通过纠正这些方法学上的缺陷，进一步深入了解道德判断的可靠性。在这项研究中，我们采用了经典的电车困境道德决策范式来确定道德决策在多大程度上容易受到框架效应的影响。共有 1040 名参与者参与了研究。研究结果表明，参与者在两种框架下的选择没有显著差异。等效性检验证实，相关的效应量非常小。进一步的探索性分析揭示了框架效应和框架操作目标之间的计划外交互作用。在不同的敏感性分析之后，这一结果从边缘显著变为不显著。讨论了这些发现的意义和局限性以及未来研究的方向。
