Jia Lina, Shao Bingjie, Wang Xiaocheng, Shi Zhuanghua
Department of Education, School of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 Dec 24;12:784752. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.784752. eCollection 2021.
Intuitive moral emotions play a major role in forming our opinions and moral decisions. However, it is not yet known how we perceive the subjective time of moral-related information. In this study, we compared subjective durations of phrases depicting immoral, disgust, or neutral behaviors in a duration bisection task and found that phrases depicting immoral behavior were perceived as lasting longer than the neutral and disgusting phrases. By contrast, the subjective duration of the disgusting phrase, unlike the immoral phrase, was comparable to the neutral phrase. Moreover, the lengthening effect of the immoral phrase relative to the neutral phrase was significantly correlated to the anonymously prosocial tendency of the observer. Our findings suggest that immoral phrases induce embodied moral reaction, which alters emotional state and subsequently lengthens subjective time.
直观的道德情感在形成我们的观点和道德决策中起着重要作用。然而，我们如何感知与道德相关信息的主观时间尚不清楚。在本研究中，我们在时长二分任务中比较了描述不道德、厌恶或中性行为的短语的主观时长，发现描述不道德行为的短语被感知为比中性和厌恶短语持续时间更长。相比之下，与不道德短语不同，厌恶短语的主观时长与中性短语相当。此外，不道德短语相对于中性短语的延长效应与观察者的匿名亲社会倾向显著相关。我们的研究结果表明，不道德短语会引发具体的道德反应，这会改变情绪状态并随后延长主观时间。
