In the same moral dilemma scenario,when presented in different languages(native vs.foreign),people tend to make more utilitarian choices in the foreign language condition,known as the moral foreign language effect.Does present moral dilemmas in different dialects affect individuals'moral decision-making tendencies?In order to examine this issue,Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 employed within-participants design,and presented moral dilemmas under conditions of no audio(Experiment 1),Mandarin,local dialect,and non-local dialect.The participants in both experiments were Chinese university students and non-university adults,who completed moral dilemma decisions in the laboratory and online,respectively.The study validated that the local dialect condition caused fewer utilitarian moral choices compared with the conditions of non-local dialect conditions(Experiment 1)and Mandarin(Experiment 2).This study first found a moral dialect effect that was similar to the moral foreign language effect.
moral judgmentmoral dialect effectmoral language effect
万方数据
维普
