PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Emo, Open Hand
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13 (1) people experience gut feelings that orient them to the nature of the moral wrongdoing (2) people then rely on more deliberative processes assessments of costs and benefits causal attributions, considerations of prevailing social norms to arrive at a final moral judgment of right or wrong. People who are shameless who are less likely to experience emotions like embarrassment and guilt, are more likely to engage in violence. More empirical attention has been given to harm related emotions like sympathy, concern, and compassion. Feelings of disgust amplify, or intensity, judgments that impure actions are morally wrong. Emotions also influence the very processes we use in reasoning, as shown by the processing style perspective: a theory that different emotions lead people to reason in different ways for example, that anger facilities reliance on preexisting heuristics and stereotypes, whereas sadness facilities more careful attention to situational details.
