Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2024 Mar 26;53(3):34. doi: 10.1007/s10936-024-10072-x.
Previous research has shown that moral choice depends on language, a phenomenon known as the moral foreign language effect (mFLE). The current study examines the influence of social distance on the mFLE. In Experiment 1, 200 participants were randomly assigned to either close or distant social distance in English or Chinese. In Experiment 2, 188 participants were randomly assigned to either English or Chinese and were presented with eight moral dilemmas, each with five different levels of social distance. After reading the dilemma, participants made a choice on a binary scale (Yes/No) in both Experiments 1 and 2 or on a more sensitive 100-point scale in Experiment 2. The results showed that the mFLE was present in distant social distance but absent in close social distance. Finally, a meta-analysis of the results from both studies confirmed the effect of social distance on the mFLE. These findings demonstrate that social distance might play an important role in moderating the mFLE in moral judgment.
先前的研究表明，道德选择取决于语言，这种现象被称为道德外语效应（mFLE）。本研究考察了社会距离对 mFLE 的影响。在实验 1 中，200 名参与者被随机分配到英语或中文的近距或远距社会距离组。在实验 2 中，188 名参与者被随机分配到英语或中文组，并呈现了八个道德困境，每个困境都有五个不同的社会距离水平。在阅读困境后，参与者在实验 1 和 2 中通过二进制量表（是/否）或在实验 2 中通过更敏感的 100 点量表做出选择。结果表明，mFLE 存在于远距社会距离中，但不存在于近距社会距离中。最后，对两项研究结果的元分析证实了社会距离对 mFLE 在道德判断中的调节作用。这些发现表明，社会距离可能在调节道德判断中的 mFLE 方面起着重要作用。
