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Moral judgments depend on information presentation: Evidence for recency and transfer effects

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Leloup, Laetitia [UCL] MEERT, GAËLLE [UCL] Samson, Dana [UCL]

Moral judgements are crucial for social life and rely on the analysis of the agent’s intention and the outcome of the agent’s action. The current study examines to the influence of how the information is presented on moral judgement. The first experiment investigated the effects of the order in which intention and outcome information was presented. The results showed that participants relied more on the last presented information, suggesting a recency effect. The second experiment required participants to make two types of judgments (wrongness vs. punishment) and manipulated the order of the requested two types of judgments. Results showed an asymmetrical transfer effect whereby punishment judgements, but not wrongness judgements were affected by the order of presentation. This asymmetrical transfer effect was likely linked to the ambiguity of the punishment judgement. Altogether, the study showed that the order in which information was presented and the order in which one was asked to think about the wrongness of an action or the punishment that the action deserves were two factors that should be irrelevant, but actually influenced moral judgements. The influence of these factors was mostly observed during the most difficult judgements, precisely in situations where human decision is called upon, such as in court trials.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2018
Language Anglais
Journal information "Psychologica Belgica" - Vol. 58, no.1, p. 256 (2018)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
issn 0033-2879
e-issn 2054-670X
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
UCL - SSS/IONS/COSY - Systems & cognitive Neuroscience
UCL - SSS/IONS - Institute of NeuroScience
Keywords moral judgement ; within-scenario order effect ; between-scenarios order effect ; recency effect transfer effect ; Moral judgement ; Within-scenario order effect ; Between-scenarios order effect ; Recency effect transfer effect
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Bibliographic reference Leloup, Laetitia ; MEERT, GAËLLE ; Samson, Dana. Moral judgments depend on information presentation: Evidence for recency and transfer effects. In: Psychologica Belgica, Vol. 58, no.1, p. 256 (2018)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/204617