Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality

It has been shown that gruesome descriptions of harm can increase the punishment given to a transgressor, a biasing effect mediated by negative emotions. However, there is a lack of studies inquiring the influence of such descriptions on moral decision-making in people involved in the criminal justi...

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Autores:
Patiño Sáenz, Michel Andrés
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2019
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Universidad de los Andes
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Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
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eng
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Juicio (Etica)
Etica
Administración de justicia penal
Psicología
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title Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality
spellingShingle Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality
Juicio (Etica)
Etica
Administración de justicia penal
Psicología
title_short Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality
title_full Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality
title_fullStr Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality
title_full_unstemmed Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality
title_sort Moral desicion-making in the criminal justice system : the biasing influence of emotion and intentionality
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Patiño Sáenz, Michel Andrés
dc.contributor.advisor.none.fl_str_mv Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Patiño Sáenz, Michel Andrés
dc.contributor.jury.none.fl_str_mv Amaya Gómez, Santiago
dc.subject.armarc.es_CO.fl_str_mv Juicio (Etica)
Etica
Administración de justicia penal
topic Juicio (Etica)
Etica
Administración de justicia penal
Psicología
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description It has been shown that gruesome descriptions of harm can increase the punishment given to a transgressor, a biasing effect mediated by negative emotions. However, there is a lack of studies inquiring the influence of such descriptions on moral decision-making in people involved in the criminal justice system. The objective of this study was to explore the influence of gruesome written descriptions on moral decision-making in this group of people. To that end, we recruited attorneys (n=14) and judges (n=28) whose field of specialty was criminal law. In addition, we included a control group of people who did not have a formal education in law (n=28), which did not differ in terms of age to the latter groups. All participants completed a computer based, Spanish-adapted version of a moral decision-making task. A series of text-based stories describing two characters, one inflicting harm on the other, were presented to participants. Transgressor's intentionality (accidental vs. intentional harm) and language used to describe harm (gruesome vs. plain) were manipulated in the stories. Results showed that control subjects rated harmful actions as significantly less morally adequate when harm was described using gruesome language. However, that was not the case of judges and attorneys. This suggests that affective signals can be modulated by the expertise a person has in dealing with emotionally charged, morally relevant scenarios. On the contrary, intentional harmful actions were evaluated as more damaging than accidental harmful actions across all groups, despite the fact that such conditions were equivalent in damage magnitude. Nevertheless, no physiological markers of affective states were found in the electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings associated to the aforementioned phenomena. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate how expertise can modulate biasing tendencies in moral decision-making processes in the context of the criminal justice system.
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spelling Al consultar y hacer uso de este recurso, está aceptando las condiciones de uso establecidas por los autores.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimenavirtual::10560-1Patiño Sáenz, Michel Andrés9e5b5944-02f1-4984-aeb5-d6593a68c542600Amaya Gómez, Santiago2020-09-03T16:04:40Z2020-09-03T16:04:40Z2019http://hdl.handle.net/1992/45548u826948.pdfinstname:Universidad de los Andesreponame:Repositorio Institucional Sénecarepourl:https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/It has been shown that gruesome descriptions of harm can increase the punishment given to a transgressor, a biasing effect mediated by negative emotions. However, there is a lack of studies inquiring the influence of such descriptions on moral decision-making in people involved in the criminal justice system. The objective of this study was to explore the influence of gruesome written descriptions on moral decision-making in this group of people. To that end, we recruited attorneys (n=14) and judges (n=28) whose field of specialty was criminal law. In addition, we included a control group of people who did not have a formal education in law (n=28), which did not differ in terms of age to the latter groups. All participants completed a computer based, Spanish-adapted version of a moral decision-making task. A series of text-based stories describing two characters, one inflicting harm on the other, were presented to participants. Transgressor's intentionality (accidental vs. intentional harm) and language used to describe harm (gruesome vs. plain) were manipulated in the stories. Results showed that control subjects rated harmful actions as significantly less morally adequate when harm was described using gruesome language. However, that was not the case of judges and attorneys. This suggests that affective signals can be modulated by the expertise a person has in dealing with emotionally charged, morally relevant scenarios. On the contrary, intentional harmful actions were evaluated as more damaging than accidental harmful actions across all groups, despite the fact that such conditions were equivalent in damage magnitude. Nevertheless, no physiological markers of affective states were found in the electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings associated to the aforementioned phenomena. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate how expertise can modulate biasing tendencies in moral decision-making processes in the context of the criminal justice system.Se ha demostrado que las descripciones grotescas del daño incrementan el castigo asignado a un transgresor. Sin embargo, hasta el momento no hay estudios que indaguen acerca de la influencia de tales descripciones durante la toma de decisiones morales en personas involucradas en el sistema de justicia penal. En este estudio se exploró la influencia de las descripciones grotescas sobre la toma de decisiones morales en este tipo de personas. Para ello, se reclutaron abogados litigantes (n = 14) y jueces (n = 28) cuyo campo de especialidad era el derecho penal. Además, se incluyó un grupo control de personas que no tenían una educación formal en derecho (n = 28), y que no diferían en edad y sexo con respecto a los otros grupos. Se aplicó una versión de una tarea de toma de decisiones morales adaptada al español. Durante la tarea se presentó una serie de historias que describían a dos personajes, uno de los cuales le infringe daño al otro. La intencionalidad del transgresor (daño accidental vs. intencional) y el lenguaje utilizado para describir el daño (grotesco vs. simple) fueron manipulados en las historias. Los resultados mostraron que solo los sujetos del grupo control calificaron las acciones dañinas como más inadecuadas moralmente cuando el daño era descrito con un lenguaje grotesco. No obstante, este no fue el caso de los jueces y abogados. Por otro lado, las transgresiones intencionales fueron evaluadas como más dañinas que las transgresiones accidentales en todos los grupos. No obstante, no se encontró ningún marcador fisiológico para estados afectivos en los registros de electrocardiograma durante la tarea asociados a los fenómenos mencionados. 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