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Social Context During Moral Decision-Making Impacts Males More Than Females, June J. Pilcher, Phillip D. Smith
Social Context During Moral Decision-Making Impacts Males More Than Females, June J. Pilcher, Phillip D. Smith
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Moral judgments are often viewed as the outcome of affective and deliberative processes that could be impacted by social factors and individual characteristics. The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction between gender and social context on moral judgment. Participants included 315 undergraduate students (67.3% female). The participants completed the Moral Decision-Making Task while seated at row tables facing the front of the room or round tables facing other participants. The results indicated that males responded in a more utilitarian manner (harm one to save five) than females for moral impersonal (MI) and moral personal (MP) dilemmas regardless …