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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Moral Psychology

Background:

  • Moral judgments typically consider both causal responsibility and intention.
  • Developmentally, children shift from outcome-based to intention-based moral judgments.
  • Adults under cognitive load show a similar shift towards outcome-based judgments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the cognitive load-induced shift in adult moral judgment shares properties with the developmental shift in childhood.
  • To analyze the characteristics of outcome-based reasoning in adults under cognitive load.

Main Methods:

  • Adult participants made moral judgments.
  • Cognitive load was experimentally induced in adult participants.
  • The properties of the resulting outcome-based judgments were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Adults under cognitive load exhibited outcome-based moral judgments, similar to young children.
  • The shift to outcome-based judgments under cognitive load shared signature properties with the childhood developmental shift.
  • This suggests a common mechanism underlying both phenomena.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive load temporarily reverts adult moral judgment to an outcome-based focus.
  • The findings support theories suggesting that intention-based moral reasoning requires cognitive resources.
  • This has significant implications for understanding moral judgment processes in adults and children.