Moral Reasoning VS Intuition Flashcards
What is home economicus?
Are we rational creatures who make all our decisions based on maximizing self-interest?
What does Haidt believe?
Moral REASONING has been overemphasized
Reasoning produces post hoc justifications (assumed to be objective reasoning)
Moral intuition is MORE PREDICTIVE
What is the emotional dog and its rational tail?
***REVIEW & DRAW DIAGRAM
What is moral dumbfounding?
When people stubbornly maintain a moral judgement, even when they cannot provide rational reasons to support their judgements
Example A:
A man goes to the supermarket once a week and buys a dead
chicken. But before cooking the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he thoroughly cooks it and eats it.
Example B: A family’s dog was killed by a car in front of their house. They had heard that dog meat was delicious, so they cut up the dog’s body and cooked it and ate it for dinner.
The social intuitionist model was created by?
Jonathon Haidt
What is the role of disgust in moral judgement?
Disgust as an exaptation (moral disgust)
• “Disgust sensitivity” varies across individuals and predicts moral judgements
• E.g., disgust sensitivity is related to social conservativism (Inbar et al. 2012)
• Stealing, lying, and fraud elicit subjectively reported disgust (Tybur et al., 2009)
• Disgust primes lead people to make harsher moral judgements…
What is disgust prime?
Disgust prime: Experimenter either read the
instructions in front of a sign reminding
people to wash their hands or in front of no
sign (control)
DV: Moral judgements toward violations of
sexual purity
• “While house sitting for his grandmother, a
man and his girlfriend have sex on his
grandmother’s bed.”
• “A woman enjoys masturbating while
cuddling with her favorite teddy bear”
What is the Macbeth effect?
Study 4:
Participants recalled a time they had acted unethically
IV: They then were either instructed to wash their hands or not
DV: Participants were asked if they would help a desperate grad student by completing another study without pay
Result:
• 41% of “cleansed” participants volunteered
• 74% of “not cleansed” participants volunteered
What can disgust also be triggered by?
Perceived moral violations:
Ex) abuse of power, cheating, same-sex marriage etc…
ROOTED in evolutionary now developing into SYMBOLIC
What is moral contamination?
Cover story: What people are willing to do under
hypnosis vs not under hypnosis
Measured disgust sensitivity (The Disgust Scale).
• “I never let any part of my body touch the toilet seat in public restrooms”
• “Even if I was hungry, I would not drink a bowl of my favorite soup if it had been
stirred by a used but thoroughly washed flyswatter”
Dependent Variable: Asked participants if they would be willing to engage in
various behaviors.
Rozins CAD model?
CAD triad hypothesis
Emotion. Shredder ethic. Principle virtues
Contempt ——> community ——> respect, duty & hierarchy
Anger ——> autonomy/justice ——> individual freedom & rights
Disgust ——> divinity ——> divinity & purity
*** HAIDT EVENTUALLY SPLIT THESE INTO MFT
