In this lab-based experiment (N = 185) we tested the effect of anticipatory stress on moral condemnation. The data covers severity ratings for vignettes of two content types: vignettes with an inherent disgust-eliciting element (e.g., eating human flesh) and without (e.g., lying on a resume). Participants in the anticipatory stress condition rated the vignettes as more morally wrong, and disgust-eliciting vignettes were rated as more morally wrong. No moderation by disgust content was found. Private Body Consciousness (PBC) was positively associated with condemnation for disgust-eliciting vignettes (but not with non-disgust-eliciting vignettes). The data can be used, for example, in research on incidental vs. inherent emotions, to identify the strength of induced emotions on judgments, and to identify moderators (e.g., PBC).
Find the data and scripts here: https://osf.io/x6n9p/files/
Or directly on Dataverse: https://hdl.handle.net/10411/FBOVXA
Figure 1: Mean condemnation ratings as a factor of condition and vignette content type. Anticipatory stress led to more moral condemnation, b = 0.46, SE = 0.19, t(354.84) = 2.40, p = .017, and disgust-eliciting vignettes were condemned more, b = 1.61, SE = 0.17, t(187.78) = 9.26, p < .001. Analysed with a linear mixed effects model (LMM) with condition (anticipatory stress vs. control), vignette content type (disgusting vs. not disgusting), and their interaction as fixed effects. The analysis was conducted with the lme4 and lmerTest packages, and confirmed with a robust LMM using the robustlmm package, see analysis scripts. Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Colored areas (violins) show kernel probability density at different values of moral condemnation.
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Figure 2: Association of Private Body Consciousness (PBC) with moral condemnation for non-disgust-eliciting vignettes (left panel, r(89) = .02, p = .88) and disgust-eliciting vignettes (right panel, r(89) = .38, p < .001).
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