TY  - SER
AU  - Magno,Jose F.IV
AU  - Magno,Jose M.
AU  - Quintos,John Gabriel Roberts R.
TI  - Context creates compromise: how contextual information and social distance affect moral judgment in Filipino culture
PY  - 2017///
KW  - Judgment (Ethics)
KW  - Social psychology
N2  - Morally ambiguous activities bear different moral impressions across contexts and cultures. 107 college students were presented with four different vignettes of a person getting intoxicated and then asked to answer a morality-rating scale pertaining to the heavy drinker. The vignettes differed in perceived social distance (the heavy drinker being a close friend versus a stranger) and contextual information (the person drinking because of the internal trait of sensation-seeking versus the external occurrences of peer influence). Results show that a heavy drinker was rated more moral when drinking due to an external occurrence of peer influence rather than an internal trait of sensation seeking (p=.015), and that there was no difference in moral judgment when the heavy drinker was a close friend or a stranger. Findings help shed light on the complex interplay of culture and context when examining moral judgment formation in a Filipino context
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