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Deciding between moral priorities and COVID-19 avoiding behaviors: A moral foundations vignette study
Current Psychology · Mart 2023
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Deciding between moral priorities and COVID-19 avoiding behaviors: A moral foundations vignette study
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY · 2021 SSCI
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Deciding between moral priorities and COVID-19 avoiding behaviors: A moral foundations vignette study
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · 2023 SSCI
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DergiCurrent Psychology
Yayın TarihiMart 2023
Cilt / Sayfa42 · 5922-5938
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85107402879
Özet
Novel moral norms peculiar to the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in tension between maintaining one’s preexisting moral priorities (e.g., loyalty to one’s family and human freedoms) and avoiding contraction of the COVID-19 disease and SARS COVID-2 virus. By drawing on moral foundations theory, the current study questioned how the COVID-19 pandemic (or health threat salience in general) affects moral decision making. With two consecutive pilot tests on three different samples (ns ≈ 40), we prepared our own sets of moral foundation vignettes which were contextualized on three levels of health threats: the COVID-19 threat, the non-COVID-19 health threat, and no threat. We compared the wrongness ratings of those transgressions in the main study (N = 396, Mage = 22.47). The results showed that the acceptability of violations increased as the disease threat contextually increased, and the fairness, care, and purity foundations emerged as the most relevant moral concerns in the face of the disease threat. Additionally, participants’ general binding moral foundation scores consistently predicted their evaluations of binding morality vignettes independent of the degree of the health threat. However, as the disease threat increased in the scenarios, pre-existing individuating morality scores lost their predictive power for care violations but not for fairness violations. The current findings imply the importance of contextual factors in moral decision making. Accordingly, we conclude that people make implicit cost-benefit analysis in arriving at a moral decision in health threatening contexts.
Yazarlar (3)
1
Hatice Ekici
ORCID: 0000-0002-8032-9708
2
Emine Yücel
ORCID: 0000-0003-3663-6003
3
Sevim Cesur
ORCID: 0000-0002-4038-0592
Anahtar Kelimeler
COVID-19
Health threat
Moral foundations theory
Vignettes
Kurumlar
Istanbul Üniversitesi
Istanbul Turkey
İzmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi
Izmir Turkey
Selçuk Üniversitesi
Selçuklu Turkey
Metrikler
9
Atıf
3
Yazar
4
Anahtar Kelime