Mindfulness training reduces slippery slope effects in moral decision-making and moral judgment.
Mindfulness training reduces slippery slope effects in moral decision-making and moral judgment.
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DOI：
10.1038/s41598-023-29614-9
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发表时间：
2023-02-20
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Zhou, Xiaolin
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作者：
Du, Wei;Yu, Hongbo;Liu, Xinhua;Zhou, Xiaolin
现有的研究已经证明了正念训练的积极的个人影响。然而，正念训练对人际过程产生影响的认知机制还不是很清楚。在这里，我们结合了随机控制正念训练设计和计算方法来进行道德决策和道德判断。参与者被随机分配到训练组(N = 32人)和对照组(N = 26人)，前者接受8周的正念训练，后者等待同样的时间。在为期8周的时间前后，参与者完成了一项道德决策任务和一项道德判断任务，前者是在自己的钱和对另一个人的不愉快电击之间进行权衡，后者是在同一道德决策任务中评估其他人的选择是否值得指责。通过五个方面的正念问卷测量，训练组的特质正念在训练前和训练后显著增加，而对照组没有增加，这表明正念操作的有效性。对于控制组，参与者在决策任务和判断任务中的道德偏好都随着时间的推移而下降，表现出一种“滑坡式”效应。相比之下，对于训练组来说，正念训练防止了道德偏好的下降。计算模型显示，专注力训练特别减少了决策和判断任务中金钱权重随时间的增加，从而抑制了“滑坡”效应。这些发现为正念训练对道德决策和道德判断的亲社会影响提供了一种认知解释。
Extant research has demonstrated the positive intrapersonal effects of mindfulness training. However, the cognitive mechanisms underlying the effects of mindfulness training on interpersonal processes are less clear. Here, we combined a randomized control mindfulness training design with computational approach to moral decision-making and moral judgments. Participants were randomly assigned to a Training group (N = 32) who received an 8-week mindfulness training or a Control group (N = 26) who waited for the same period of time. Before and after the 8-week period, participants completed a moral decision-making task, where they made tradeoff between money for themselves and unpleasant electric shocks to another person, and a moral judgment task, where they evaluated the blameworthiness of someone else’s choices in the same moral decision-making task. Trait mindfulness, as measured by the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, significantly increased from the pre- to post-training session for the Training group, but not the Control group, demonstrating the effectiveness of the mindfulness manipulation. For the Control group, participants’ moral preference in both the decision-making task and the judgment task declined over time, exhibiting a “slippery slope” effect. In contrast, for the Training group, mindfulness training prevented moral preferences from declining. Computational modeling revealed that mindfulness training specifically reduced the increase in the weights of money over time in both the decision-making and judgment tasks, thereby curbing the “slippery slope” effects. These findings provide a cognitive account of the prosocial effects of mindfulness training on moral decision-making and moral judgments.
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影响因子：
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作者：
Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian;Lockwood, Patricia L;Bird, Geoffrey;Apps, Matthew A J;Crockett, Molly J
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发表时间：
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期刊：
AFFECTIVE SCIENCE
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