PSY 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Loss Aversion, Moral Psychology, Social Dilemma
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Social traps: a situation where individuals or groups are drawn toward immediate rewards that later prove to have unpleasant, negative or even lethal characteristics. We repeat behaviors that lead to immediate reinforcement, but sometimes those behaviors can have hidden costs with different roots. The dollar auction game: same as standard auction, but runner up also pays a bid. Endowment effect: describes divestiture aversion caused by the tendency tao ascribe more value to things merely because we own them. Emotion and reason in moral judgment: dual process theory. Emotion and reason are operative in moral judgment. We are utilitarian when contemplating non-moral or impersonal dilemmas (reasons), but non-utilitarian in up-close-and-personal dilemmas (emotion) Personal harm represents violations familiar to all primates, and so are linked to emotional, hot response system. Impersonal harm uniquely human, and so is linked to rational, cool response system. No statistically significant difference between moral-impersonal and non- moral situations in brain processing.
