Keywords:
Moral decision-making; Moral reasons; Interpersonal relationship; Differential mode of association; Confirmatory bias
道德决策;道德理由;人际关系;差序格局;确认偏差
Abstract:
Although it is generally believed that the evaluation of opposing information leads to changes
in existing perspectives and decisions, research has found that confirmatory bias in the evaluation of
opposing reasons in moral judgments leads to subjects’ refusal to change their original moral decisions.
This study investigates whether interpersonal relationship influence individuals’ evaluation of moral
reasons and thus change their degree of certainty about their original decisions based on the “pattern of
difference sequence” theory of interpersonal relationship. The results showed that the subjects’ evaluation
of moral reasons varied according to the interpersonal relationships of the moral subjects, but the
interpersonal relationships did not affect the degree of certainty of the original moral perspectives. The
current study further explores the influence of interpersonal relationship on moral judgments and further
verifies the existence of a “pattern of difference sequence” in Chinese people’s moral judgments.
尽管普遍观点认为对于反对信息的评估会导致现有观点和决策的变动,但已有研究却发现在道德判断中由于被试对反对理由的评估存在确认偏差从而导致其拒绝改变原有的道德决策。本研究基于人际关系的“差序格局”理论,探讨人际关系因素是否会影响个体对道德理由的评估从而改变其对原有决策的确信程度。结果发现,被试对道德理由的评估随道德对象人际关系的变化呈现出“朋友有差,亲属有序”的差异性,但人际关系因素的介入并没有影响对原有道德观点的确信程度,不同人际关系条件下改变道德决策的被试人数无显著差异。当前研究深入探讨了人际关系因素对道德判断的影响,进一步验证了中国人道德判断中“差序结构”的存在。