TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Emotions as Moral Amplifiers: An Appraisal Tendency Approach to the Influences of Distinct Emotions upon Moral Judgment
JO  - Emotion review
A1  - Horberg, Elizabeth J.
A1  - Oveis, Christopher
A1  - Keltner, Dacher
SP  - 237
EP  - 244
VL  - 3
IS  - 3
N2  - In this article, we advance the perspective that distinct emotions amplify different moral judgments, based on the emotion's core appraisals. This theorizing yields four insights into the way emotions shape moral judgment. We submit that there are two kinds of specificity in the impact of emotion upon moral judgment: domain specificity and emotion specificity. We further contend that the unique embodied aspects of an emotion, such as nonverbal expressions and physiological responses, contribute to an emotion's impact on moral judgment. Finally, emotions play a key role in determining which issues acquire moral significance in a society over time, in a process known as moralization (Rozin, 1999). The implications of these four observations for future research on emotion and morality are discussed.<p /> 
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SN  - 1754-0739
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1754073911402384
ID  - ref1
ER  -