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Can coherence-based interventions change dogged moral beliefs about meat-eating?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ( IF 3.532 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-09 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104160
Zachary Horne , Joshua Rottman , Caroline Lawrence

What causes people to change their beliefs about right and wrong? Coherence-based interventions can change people's moral beliefs about abstract moral principles (Holyoak & Powell, 2016), but it is unclear whether these interventions would be similarly effective for everyday moral beliefs that can impact routine behavior. In the present research, we examined whether coherence-based “memes” highlighting the moral similarities of pigs and dogs can shift moral beliefs about consuming meat. Across three preregistered experiments (N = 2281), we found that self-reported beliefs about the permissibility of eating some animals can be subtly shifted by brief coherence-based interventions which highlight morally relevant capacities (e.g., intelligence, emotional capacities) of an animal that is frequently eaten in Western society (pig) and an animal that is typically considered forbidden to eat by Westerners (dog). We discuss the implications of these findings for psychological and ethical theory.



中文翻译:

基于连贯性的干预能改变关于吃肉的顽固的道德信念吗?

是什么导致人们改变对是非的信念?基于连贯性的干预可以改变人们对抽象道德原则的道德信念 (Holyoak & Powell, 2016),但尚不清楚这些干预是否对可能影响日常行为的日常道德信念同样有效。在目前的研究中,我们研究了基于连贯性的“模因”强调猪和狗的道德相似性是否可以改变关于食用肉类的道德信念。在三个预先注册的实验中(N = 2281),我们发现自我报告的关于允许吃某些动物的信念可以通过简短的基于连贯性的干预来微妙地改变,这些干预突出了西方经常吃的动物的道德相关能力(例如,智力、情感能力)。社会(猪)和通常被西方人认为禁止食用的动物(狗)。我们讨论了这些发现对心理学和伦理理论的影响。

更新日期:2021-06-10
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