Iranian and American Moral Judgments for Everyday Dilemmas Are Mostly Similar

Frontiers in Psychology

Aryan Yazdanpanah¹  Amin Jahanbakhshi²  Parisa Hosseinpour³  Parisa Javadnia³  Seyed Vahid Shariat⁴  Kaveh Alavi⁴  Fatemeh Sadat Mirfazeli⁴  Faraneh GhaffariHosseini⁴  Sarvenaz Soltani⁴  Jordan Grafman⁵ 

[1] Cognitive Systems Laboratory, Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;Department of Neurosurgery, Skull Base Research Center, Rasool-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Faculty of Medicine, Rasool-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Mental Health Research Center, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Center, Chicago, IL, United States;Department of Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine and Department of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States;

关键词: moral judgments;    moral cognition;    moral vignettes;    cross-cultural differences;    everyday moral dilemmas;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640620

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Moral judgment is a complex cognitive process that partly depends upon social and individual cultural values. There have been various efforts to categorize different aspects of moral judgment, but most studies depend upon rare dilemmas. We recruited 25 subjects from Tehran, Iran, to rate 150 everyday moral scenarios developed by Knutson et al. Using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), we observed that the same moral dimensions (except socialness dimension) were driven by the same moral cognitive factors (norm violation, intention, and social affect) in Iranian vs. American studies. However, there were minor differences in the factor loadings between the two cultures. Furthermore, based on the EFA results, we developed a short form of the questionnaire by removing eleven of the fifteen scenarios from each of the ten categories. These results could be used in further studies to better understand the similarities and differences in moral judgment in everyday interactions across different cultures.

【 授权许可】

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