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Social sciences
- Social perception and cognition
- Social psychology not elsewhere classified
Moral psychology has been a widely studied field, but it is dominated by a Western perspective based on WEIRD samples. This limitation highlights the need for more cross-cultural research in this area to gain a comprehensive and inclusive understanding of human morality. Our proposal aims to explore cultural variations in moral judgement by using process dissociation dilemmas and inaction version dilemmas. Our goal is to investigate the relationship between utilitarian and deontological preference and challenge the conventional Western construct that views morality as unidimensional by demonstrating that Chinese individuals adopt a holistic perspective that incorporates both utilitarian and deontological judgement. Furthermore, we intend to examine the cross-cultural variations in moral judgement by taking the inaction bias, which has special ethical values in Chinese philosophy, into account. We also aim to demonstrate how such cross-cultural differences in morality might impact the applicability of those individual difference predictors in existing findings, which have largely been derived from Western samples.