Although recent studies have investigated the effect of alexithymia on moral judgments, such an effect remains elusive. Furthermore, moral judgments have been conflated with the moral inclinations underlying those judgments in previous studies. Using a process dissociation approach to independently quantify the strength of utilitarian and deontological inclinations, the present study investigated the effect of alexithymia on moral judgments. We found that deontological inclinations were significantly lower in the high alexithymia group than in the low alexithymia group, whereas the difference in the utilitarian inclinations between the two groups was nonsignificant. Furthermore, empathic concern and deontological inclinations mediated the association between alexithymia and conventional relative judgments (i.e., more utilitarian judgments over deontological judgments), showing that people with high alexithymia have low empathic concern, which, in turn, decreases deontological inclinations and contributes to conventional relative judgments. These findings underscore the importance of empathy and deontological inclinations in moral judgments and indicate that individuals with high alexithymia make more utilitarian judgments over deontological judgments possibly due to a deficit in affective processing.

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为什么患有高度怀疑症的人做出更多的功利主义判断。

尽管最近的研究已经研究了心理障碍对道德判断的影响，但这种影响仍然难以捉摸。此外，在先前的研究中，道德判断已与这些判断的道德倾向混为一谈。本研究使用过程解离方法独立地量化了功利主义和道义主义倾向的强度，研究了残障对道德判断的影响。我们发现，高检音能力组的义务论倾向显着低于低检音能力组，而两组功利主义倾向的差异不显着。此外，移情的关注和义务论的倾向介导了运动障碍与传统相对判断（即 更多的功利主义判断，而不是对道义论断的判断），这表明具有高读写能力的人对共情的关注度很低，这反过来减少了道义论的倾向并有助于传统的相对论断。这些发现突显了移情和道义倾向在道德判断中的重要性，并表明，由于情感处理能力不足，具有较高读写障碍的人对道义判断做出的功利性判断更高。