ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Moral Decision-Making During COVID-19: Moral Judgements, Moralisation, and Everyday Behaviour.
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- Reduced utilitarian willingness to violate personal rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Job Stress and Ethical Decision-Making Among Healthcare Workers in Post-Pandemic Infectious Disease Control.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Effects of Sadness and Fear on Moral Judgments in Public Emergency Events.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Intact moral decision-making in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.Brain impairment : a multidisciplinary journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment · 2023Article
- Effects of perspective switching and utilitarian thinking on moral judgments in a sacrificial dilemma among healthcare and non-healthcare students.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Deciding between moral priorities and COVID-19 avoiding behaviors: A moral foundations vignette study.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Prevention and Panic from COVID-19, Ethical Principles, Life Expectancy, Anxiety, Depression and Stress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Prevention for oneself or others? Psychological and social factors that explain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- 'Distancers' and 'non-distancers'? The potential social psychological impact of moralizing COVID-19 mitigating practices on sustained behaviour change.The British journal of social psychology · 2020Article
- Moral Decision-Making, Stress, and Social Cognition in Frontline Workers vs. Population Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Explorative Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
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.
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