ABSTRACT Previous research demonstrated that exposure to news of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France increased the salience of moral intuitions associated with respect for authority and purity in a sample of U.S. participants. The present study attempted to replicate this finding with news of domestic terrorism by examining the effect of exposure to news of the 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada music festival shooting. Approximately three weeks before the Las Vegas shooting occurred, participants (N = 195) drawn from a population similar to the original study completed a survey measuring their moral intuition salience. Four days after the event, participants (N = 162) read either news coverage of the shooting or a control story and once again completed a survey measuring their moral intuition salience. Our results replicated previous findings from research on the Paris terrorist attacks. Exposure to news of the Las Vegas terrorist attack increased the salience of respect for authority and purity. We discuss how our findings are in line with logic suggesting that news of a terrorist attacks can threaten audiences’ perceptions of societal safety, strengthen the need for societal cohesion, and increase the salience of binding moral intuitions.

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恐怖袭击新闻对道德直觉的影响

摘要 先前的研究表明，接触 2015 年法国巴黎恐怖袭击的新闻会增加美国参与者样本中与尊重权威和纯洁性相关的道德直觉的显着性。本研究试图通过检查接触 2017 年内华达州拉斯维加斯音乐节枪击事件新闻的影响，用国内恐怖主义新闻复制这一发现。在拉斯维加斯枪击案发生前大约三周，从与原始研究相似的人群中抽取的参与者 (N = 195) 完成了一项测量其道德直觉显着性的调查。事件发生四天后，参与者（N = 162）阅读了枪击事件的新闻报道或控制故事，并再次完成了一项测量其道德直觉显着性的调查。我们的结果复制了之前对巴黎恐怖袭击的研究结果。接触拉斯维加斯恐怖袭击的新闻增加了对权威和纯洁的尊重。我们讨论了我们的研究结果如何符合逻辑，即恐怖袭击的消息会威胁观众对社会安全的看法，加强对社会凝聚力的需求，并增加具有约束力的道德直觉的显着性。