The dual-process model of moral decision-making posits that emotion processing and value judgments compete and cooperate with each other in moral de-cision-making.Previous studies have separately re-vealed the influences of emotional involvement and expected value(determined by magnitude and proba-bility)on moral decision-making.However,there is no evidence to support their interaction.In this study,moral dilemma stories were used to investigate the interactive effects of magnitude and probability on moral decision-making under varying degrees of e-motional involvement.The results showed that under the condition of low emotional involvement,the utili-tarian tendency increased with increasing magnitude and decreasing probability.However,under the con-dition of high emotional involvement and high sur-vival probability,the difference in utilitarian tenden-cy was no longer significant between the higher two levels of magnitude(medium and large number of victims).This suggests that the influence of expected value was weakened under the condition of high e-motional involvement where emotion processing is dominant.The results confirm the interaction of emo-tional involvement and expected value on moral deci-sion-making,which is a valuable supplement to the dual-process model.
moral decision-makingemotion-al involvementvalue judgmentmagnitudeproba-bility
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