{"pk":27128,"title":"Judgment Before Emotion:People Access Moral Evaluations Faster than Affective States","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Theories about the role of emotions in moral cognition makedifferent predictions about the relative speed of moral andaffective judgments: those that argue that felt emotions arecausal inputs to moral judgments predict that recognition ofaffective states should precede moral judgments; theoriesthat posit emotional states as the output of moral judgmentpredict the opposite. Across four studies, using a speededreaction time task, we found that self-reports of felt emotionwere delayed relative to reports of event-directed moraljudgments (e.g. badness) and were no faster than person-directed moral judgments (e.g. blame). These results pose achallenge to prominent theories arguing that moraljudgments are made on the basis of reflecting on affectivestates.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Affect"},{"word":"Emotion"},{"word":"moral judgment"},{"word":"reaction time"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76j7j4mm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Corey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cusimano","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Stuti","middle_name":"Thapa","last_name":"Magar","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Bertram","middle_name":"F.","last_name":"Malle","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T23:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27128/galley/16764/download/"}]}