Processing fluency-the subjective ease of information processing-influences a variety of judgments (e.g., judgments of familiarity, liking, and truth). A study by Laham, Alter, and Goodwin (2009) suggests that this is also true for moral judgments. More specifically, the authors found that discrepant perceptual fluency mitigates moral wrongness ratings. In five studies (total N = 694), we tested the replicability of this finding for different kinds of scenarios (moral versus conventional transgressions) and different perceptual fluency manipulations. In Studies 1a and 1b we manipulated fluency by text background, in Studies 2a and 2b by font type, and in Study 3 by word spaces. Critically, none of the studies replicated Laham et al.'s discrepant fluency effect on moral wrongness ratings. In turn, we found that moral wrongness ratings were strongly affected by participants' emotional responses to the scenarios. Taken together, the findings of our five studies cast very strong doubt on perceptual fluency effects on moral judgments.

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心安理得，做错事的人容易？没有证据表明感知流畅性对道德错误评级有影响。

处理流畅性——信息处理的主观难易程度——影响各种判断（例如，对熟悉、喜欢和真实的判断）。Laham、Alter 和 Goodwin (2009) 的一项研究表明，道德判断也是如此。更具体地说，作者发现不一致的知觉流畅度减轻了道德错误评级。在五项研究（总 N = 694）中，我们测试了这一发现对不同场景（道德与传统违规）和不同感知流畅性操作的可重复性。在研究 1a 和 1b 中，我们通过文本背景来控制流畅度，在研究 2a 和 2b 中我们通过字体类型，以及在研究 3 中通过单词空间。至关重要的是，没有一项研究复制了 Laham 等人对道德错误评级的差异流畅性影响。反过来，我们发现，参与者对情景的情绪反应强烈影响道德错误评级。综上所述，我们五项研究的结果对感知流畅性对道德判断的影响提出了非常强烈的怀疑。