Year: 2019
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper addresses the influence of belief in a just world and belief in karma on moral judgment by examining situations with the following conditions: 1) the protagonist’s fate (bad or absent) and 2) moral situation (one out of six) based on moral foundations theory. Online questionaires were collected from 360 undergraduates were aged between 18 to 25. The results found no effects of belief in karma. Meanwhile, the effects of belief in a just world on behavioral aspects of moral judgments emerged as significant only in three types of moral situations; positive effects on the fairness/cheating (Having a forbidden affair with someone other than spouse.), negative effects on the loyalty/betrayal (giving the confidential information of the own company to a competitor) and the liberty/oppression (convincing the lover to change his religious belief). The participants also accepted moral violations to a greater extent in the liberty/oppression situation than in others. Keywords: belief in a just world, belief in karma, fate, moral judgment
Author: จตุรพาณิชย์, ไตรภพ
Language: Thai
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219483936