APS

2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

No Moral Truth in the Mind: Moral Judgments Do Not Rely on the Same Cognitive Processes As Truth Judgments

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Cognitive

  • Jasmin Richter
    University of Oslo
  • Kristine Lescoeur
    Oslo Metropolitan University
  • Ida Nilsen
    University of Oslo
  • Rolf Reber
    University of Oslo

Abstract

Studies showed that repeating a statement makes it seem more probably true. Similarly, repeating statements about moral transgressions makes these transgressions seem less morally wrong. We found that truth judgments were affected more by repetition than moral judgments, contradicting prominent philosophical accounts that moral judgments are stating facts about reality.

Ethics

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