Emotions as Moral Amplifiers: An Appraisal Tendency Approach to the Influences of Distinct Emotions upon Moral Judgment

By E. Horberg, C. Oveis, Dacher Keltner. 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Jay J. Van Bavel
2. W. Brady
3. Dominic Abrams
4. J. Wills
5. John T. Jost
6. Joshua A. Tucker
7. Piercarlo Valdesolo
8. J. Lerner

In Information Systems and Management

1. John T. Jost
2. Karim S. Kassam
3. Shreyans Goenka
4. S. V. Osselaer

In Social Psychology

1. Jay J. Van Bavel
2. Piercarlo Valdesolo
3. Karim S. Kassam
4. Ye Li
5. Dominic Abrams
6. Patrick Weber
7. John T. Jost
8. Katharina Sommer

Citations in the corpus

• Emotion and decision making. (2015, background): “Given that general positivity or negativity can spread through groups and influence performance outcomes (e.g., Barsade 2002, Hatfield et al. 1993, Totterdell 2000), considerably more research in this area is needed, especially at the level of specific emotions.”
• Testing the prosocial effectiveness of the prototypical moral emotions: Elevation increases benevolent behaviors and outrage increases justice behaviors (2015, background): “Secondly, the ATF offers a theoretically sound as well as tangible and practical framework for practitioners to understand the effects of emotions on prosocial behaviors and utilize them accordingly (Horberg et al., 2011).”
• Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks (2017, background): “Emotions tend to be highly associated with moral judgments (3), amplify moral judgments (7), and may even serve to “moralize” actions that would otherwise be considered nonmoral (8).”
• Beyond Cognitive Framing Processes: Anger Mediates the Effects of Responsibility Framing on the Preference for Punitive Measures (2015, background): “Accordingly, Horberg, Oveis, and Keltner (2011) conclude in their review on the role of emotions in moral judgments that emotions arise from cognitive appraisals, and, in turn, have specific effects on moral judgments.”
• Charities Can Increase the Effectiveness of Donation Appeals by Using a Morally Congruent Positive Emotion (2019, background): “While researchers have speculated that discrete positive emotions can also diverge in their moral consequences (Horberg et al. 2011), no work to the best of our knowledge has demonstrated this empirically.”