Moral decision-making during COVID-19: Moral judgments, moralisation, and everyday behaviour

Francis, Kathryn B. and McNabb, Carolyn B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6434-5177 2022. Moral decision-making during COVID-19: Moral judgments, moralisation, and everyday behaviour. [Online]. OSF Preprints. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/jvfds

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose significant health, economic, and social challenges. Given that many of these challenges have moral relevance, the present studies investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing moral decision-making and whether moralisation of behaviours specific to the crisis predict adherence to government-recommended behaviours. Whilst we find no evidence that utilitarian endorsements have changed during the pandemic at two separate timepoints, individuals have moralisednon-compliant behaviours associated with the pandemic such as failing to physically distance themselves from others. Importantly, our findings show that this moralisation predicts sustained individual compliance with government-recommended behaviours.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Publisher:	OSF Preprints
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2024 01:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/162756

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