Different influences of facial attractiveness on judgments of moral beauty and moral goodness

被引:17
作者
Cui, Xuan [1 ]
Cheng, Qiuping [1 ]
Lin, Wuji [1 ]
Lin, Jiabao [1 ]
Mo, Lei [1 ]
机构
[1] South China Normal Univ, Ctr Studies Psychol Applicat, Sch Psychol, Guangdong Key Lab Mental Hlth & Cognit Sci, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong, Peoples R China
关键词
RESPONSES; JUSTICE; PERSONALITY; MECHANISMS; DYNAMICS; FACES; BAD; ERP;
D O I
10.1038/s41598-019-48649-5
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Are beauty and goodness the same? The relationship between beauty and goodness has long been a controversial issue in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, ethics and psychology. Although many empirical studies have explored moral judgment and aesthetic judgment separately, only a few studies have compared the two. Whether these two judgments are two different processes or the same process with two different labels remains unclear. To answer this question, the present study directly compared the influence of facial attractiveness on judgments of moral goodness and moral beauty and revealed distinct contributions of imaging perceptions to these two judgments. The results showed that in the moral beauty judgment task, participants gave higher scores to characters with attractive faces compared with characters with unattractive faces, and larger P200 and LPP were elicited in the unattractive-face condition compared with the attractive-face condition; while in the moral goodness judgment task, there was no significant difference between the two conditions of either behaviour or ERP data. These findings offer important insights into the understanding and comparison of the processes of moral judgment and aesthetic judgment.
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