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SUMMARY:Attitudinal Influences on Moral Judgments - Prof Bogdan Wojciszke\
 , SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Poland
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CONTACT:Johanna M Lukate
DESCRIPTION:Moral judgments are a joint product of affective intuitions an
 d moral reasoning. Because intuitions result from automatic processes\, wh
 ile reasoning requires controlled processes\, the former typically dominat
 e moral judgments\, which makes them crucial  for the  understanding of mo
 ral controversies and the resulting social divisions. Discrete emotions an
 d mood are frequently studied sources of affect to the neglect of attitude
 s\, which are also crucial and ubiquitous bases of affect. I present two l
 ines of studies showing attitudinal influences on moral judgments. The fir
 st line showed that moral judgments of other persons are biased by the obs
 erver’s self-interest. Specifically\, (1) others’ dishonest behavior i
 s evaluated leniently (up to positive)\, when the observer profits from th
 is dishonesty\, (2) actors bringing profits are liked by the observer\, (3
 ) increased liking of such actors completely mediates the increases in mor
 al evaluations\, and (4) observers truly believe in their biased moral jud
 gments and trust in the cheater who brings profits. The second line of res
 earch showed that mere liking heavily biases moral judgments. Specifically
 \, increases in liking due to morally irrelevant reasons\, such as beliefs
  similarity\, mimicry or mere exposure\, lead to increased judgments of mo
 ral character of those well-liked persons. This positivity does not spill 
 over to judgments of competence\, nor is it attenuated by accountability. 
 I conclude that although moral judgments are widely believed to be objecti
 ve\, their actual premises tend to be very subjective\, which contributes 
 to the un-tractability of moral disputes.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
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