Moral foundations vignettes: a standardized stimulus database of scenarios based on moral foundations theory.
Moral foundations vignettes: a standardized stimulus database of scenarios based on moral foundations theory.
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DOI：
10.3758/s13428-014-0551-2
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发表时间：
2015-12
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Sinnott-Armstrong W
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作者：
Clifford S;Iyengar V;Cabeza R;Sinnott-Armstrong W
近年来，关于道德判断的情感、认知和社会决定因素的研究激增。道德基础理论（MFT）的发展发挥了重要作用，展示了道德的广度。道德心理学通过研究不同的道德判断领域如何受到各种心理因素的影响来做出回应。然而，该学科缺乏一套经过验证的跨越道德领域的道德违规行为，这为调查对判断的影响以及它们的神经基础在道德领域如何变化造成了障碍。在本文中，我们的目标是通过开发和验证大量道德基础小插图（MFV）来填补这一空白。每个小插图都描述了一种违反特定道德基础而不是其他道德基础的行为。这些小插图在许多维度上受到控制，包括句法结构和复杂性，使其适合神经影像研究。我们通过检查受访者对道德违规行为的分类、进行探索性和验证性因素分析、并展示提取的因素与现有道德基础衡量标准之间的对应关系来证明我们的小插图的有效性。我们预计 MFV 将有益于道德认知的各种行为和神经影像研究。
Research on the emotional, cognitive, and social determinants of moral judgment has surged in recent years. The development of moral foundations theory (MFT) has played an important role, demonstrating the breadth of morality. Moral psychology has responded by investigating how different domains of moral judgment are shaped by a variety of psychological factors. Yet, the discipline lacks a validated set of moral violations that span the moral domain, creating a barrier to investigating influences on judgment and how their neural bases might vary across the moral domain. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by developing and validating a large set of moral foundations vignettes (MFVs). Each vignette depicts a behavior violating a particular moral foundation and not others. The vignettes are controlled on many dimensions including syntactic structure and complexity making them suitable for neuroimaging research. We demonstrate the validity of our vignettes by examining respondents’ classifications of moral violations, conducting exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and demonstrating the correspondence between the extracted factors and existing measures of the moral foundations. We expect that the MFVs will be beneficial for a wide variety of behavioral and neuroimaging investigations of moral cognition.