Moral judgements are crucial for social life and rely on the analysis of the agent’s intention and the outcome of the agent’s action. The current study examines to the influence of how the information is presented on moral judgement. The first experiment investigated the effects of the order in which intention and outcome information was presented. The results showed that participants relied more on the last presented information, suggesting a recency effect. The second experiment required participants to make two types of judgments (wrongness vs. punishment) and manipulated the order of the requested two types of judgments. Results showed an asymmetrical transfer effect whereby punishment judgements, but not wrongness judgements were affected by the order of presentation. This asymmetrical transfer effect was likely linked to the ambiguity of the punishment judgement. Altogether, the study showed that the order in which information was presented and the order in which one was asked to think about the wrongness of an action or the punishment that the action deserves were two factors that should be irrelevant, but actually influenced moral judgements. The influence of these factors was mostly observed during the most difficult judgements, precisely in situations where human decision is called upon, such as in court trials.

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道德判断取决于信息呈现：新近效应和转移效应的证据

道德判断对社会生活至关重要，它依赖于对代理人意图和代理人行为结果的分析。目前的研究考察了信息呈现方式对道德判断的影响。第一个实验调查了呈现意图和结果信息的顺序的影响。结果表明，参与者更多地依赖最后呈现的信息，这表明存在新近效应。第二个实验要求参与者做出两种类型的判断（错误与惩罚）并操纵要求的两种类型判断的顺序。结果显示了一种不对称的转移效应，即惩罚判断而不是错误判断受到呈现顺序的影响。这种不对称的转移效应可能与惩罚判断的模糊性有关。总而言之，该研究表明，信息呈现的顺序和人们被要求思考行为的错误或行为应受到的惩罚的顺序是两个应该无关紧要的因素，但实际上影响了道德判断。这些因素的影响主要是在最困难的判决中观察到的，正是在需要人为决定的情况下，例如在法庭审判中。但实际上影响了道德判断。这些因素的影响主要是在最困难的判决中观察到的，正是在需要人为决定的情况下，例如在法庭审判中。但实际上影响了道德判断。这些因素的影响主要是在最困难的判决中观察到的，正是在需要人为决定的情况下，例如在法庭审判中。