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The role of emotions in moral judgment

The traditional approach to moral judgments emphasizes the role of rational deliberations. This approach has been challenged by theories that highlight the important role of emotions in moral judgments. In this project we use event-related potentials (ERPs) and pupillometry as implicit measures to gain a better understanding on the role of emotions in moral judgments as well as explicit and deliberate moral judgments. In addition, this project is motivated by research on the influence of political attitudes on morality. We are testing large samples of conservative and progressive subjects to measure the influence of individuals’ political orientation on morally associated agents, using again both behavioral and EEG measures.

 

Methods

EEG, pupillometry, behavioral measures

 

Preregistration

Demel, R., Ringel, T., Schultze, T., Thiel, J., Waldmann, M.,  Schacht, A. (2019). How we judge moral agents: an investigation of the influence of emotion, political orientation and empathy. Open Science Framework. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ACMKR

 

Preprint

Demel R, Waldmann M., Schacht A. (2019). The Role of Emotions in Moral Judgments: Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials. BioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/541342

 

Poster presentations and talks

Demel R, Pooresmaeili, A., Waldmann, M., Schacht A. (2019). The Influence of Emotion and Conservatism on Moral Judgments Poster presentation at the Aegina Summer School on Social Cognition “Norms and Biases in Social Interactions”, Aegina, GD 30 June- 06 July 2019

Demel, R., Schacht, A. (2018) The Role of Emotions in Moral Judgment Talk at the RTG 2017 Student Conference: Understanding Social Relationships, Goettingen, DE 16-17 October 2018

Demel, R., Schacht, A. (2018) The Impact of Moral Judgments on Emotional Face Perception: Electrophysiological Evidence Poster presentation at the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Leiden, NL, 19-22 July 2018

Demel, R., Schacht, A. (2018) The Impact of Moral Judgments on Emotional Face Perception: Electrophysiological Evidence Talk at the Moral Psychology: From Neurons to Norms, Beirut; LB, 24-26 May 2018

Demel, R., Waldmann, M., Schacht, A. (2018) The Interaction between Emotional Valence, Gender, Empathy, and Conservatism in Moral Judgments Poster presentation at the Consortium of the European Research on Emotion (CERE) 2018, Glasgow, UK, 4-5 April 2018

 

Contact

Ronja K. Demel, M.Sc.,