It has been proposed that somatosensory reaction to varied social circumstances results in feelings (i.e., conscious emotional experiences). Here, we present two preregistered studies in which we examined the topographical maps of somatosensory reactions associated with violations of different moral concerns. Specifically, participants in Study 1 (N = 596) were randomly assigned to respond to scenarios involving various moral violations and were asked to draw key aspects of their subjective somatosensory experience on two 48,954-pixel silhouettes. Our results show that body patterns corresponding to different moral violations are felt in different regions of the body depending on whether individuals are classified as liberals or conservatives. We also investigated how individual differences in moral concerns relate to body maps of moral violations. Finally, we used natural-language processing to predict activation in body parts on the basis of the semantic representation of textual stimuli. We replicated these findings in a nationally representative sample in Study 2 (N = 300). Overall, our findings shed light on the complex relationships between moral processes and somatosensory experiences.

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道德问题的身体地图

有人提出，对不同社会环境的体感反应会导致感觉（即有意识的情绪体验）。在这里，我们提出了两项​​预先注册的研究，其中我们检查了与违反不同道德问题相关的体感反应的地形图。具体而言，研究 1 的参与者（N = 596）被随机分配以应对涉及各种违反道德的场景，并被要求在两个 48,954 像素的轮廓上绘制他们主观体感体验的关键方面。我们的结果表明，根据个人被归类为自由主义者还是保守主义者，在身体的不同区域会感受到与不同道德侵犯相对应的身体模式。我们还调查了道德关注的个体差异与道德侵犯的身体地图之间的关系。最后，我们使用自然语言处理根据文本刺激的语义表示来预测身体部位的激活。我们在研究 2 (N = 300) 的全国代表性样本中复制了这些发现。总的来说，我们的研究结果阐明了道德过程和体感体验之间的复杂关系。