Moral decision-making during COVID-19: moral judgments, moralisation, and everyday behaviour

Francis, K. B. and McNabb, C. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6434-5177 (2022) Moral decision-making during COVID-19: moral judgments, moralisation, and everyday behaviour. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. 769177. ISSN 1664-1078 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769177

Abstract/Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose significant health, economic, and social challenges. Given that many of these challenges have moral relevance, the present studies investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing moral decision-making and whether moralisation of behaviours specific to the crisis predict adherence to government-recommended behaviours. Whilst we find no evidence that utilitarian endorsements have changed during the pandemic at two separate timepoints, individuals have moralised non-compliant behaviours associated with the pandemic such as failing to physically distance themselves from others. Importantly, our findings show that this moralisation predicts sustained individual compliance with government-recommended behaviours.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/101976
Identification Number/DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769177
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Publisher	Frontiers Media
Download/View statistics	View download statistics for this item