RT Article
T1 Forty-Eight Classical Moral Dilemmas in Persian Language: A Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study
JF Journal of cognition and culture
VO 22
IS 3/4
SP 352
OP 382
A1 Sojoudi, Sajad
A1 Jahanitabesh, Azra
A1 Hatami, Javad
A1 Christensen, Julia F.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1811760007
AB In an effort to provide moral judgment data from a non-WEIRD culture, we provide the translation and validation of 48 classical moral dilemmas in Persian language. The translated dilemma set was submitted to a validation experiment with N = 82 Iranian participants. The four-factor structure of this dilemma set was confirmed; including Personal Force (Personal, Impersonal), Benefit Recipient (Self, Other), Evitability (Avoidable, Inevitable), and Intentionality (Accidental, Instrumental). When comparing moral judgments of Iranian participants to those of Spanish and Italian participants’ from previous research with the same dilemma set, differences emerged. Iranian participants’ moral judgments were more deontological (i.e., they refrained from harm), than Spanish and Italian participants. Religiosity made participants’ moral judgments more deontological, and also dysphoric mood resulted in a more deontological response style.
AB Moral dilemmas are a useful tool to investigate empirically, which parameters of a given situation modulate participants’ moral judgment, and in what way.
K1 Persia
K1 Iran
K1 Trade-off
K1 Utilitarianism
K1 Deontology
K1 Moral Dilemmas
K1 Moral Judgment
DO 10.1163/15685373-12340139