Risk, moral value of actions, and mood
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 27 (1) , 191-208
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1986.tb01197.x
Abstract
In this article the acceptability of risk is related to the moral value of risky actions. Four widely different groups of subjects (clergy, MBA students, prison inmates and pregnant women) judged 20 individual and 20 collective acts with reference to acceptability of risk, moral value, and value and probability of negative and positive consequences. They also rated their current mood. Acceptability of risks was most strongly related to moral value, which thus was found to be an important determiner of acceptability of risk. A depressed mood was associated with a lenient attitude to risks. Societal acts were more negatively evaluated than individual acts. There was a strong positive correlation between values and probabilities of outcomes, both positive and negative.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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