Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2024-03-19
Abstract： In recent years, the debates between monism and pluralism are one of the most active theoretical disagreements in the field of moral psychology. Moral monism claims that all moral phenomena on the surface and moral structures behind them can be explained by one factor, and the representative theories are stages theory of moral development and dyadic morality theory, etc. Moral pluralism holds that morality can’t be explained by a single factor, whereas has many heterogeneous moral dimensions and cultural sensitivity. The representative theories are triadic moral discourse theory, relational model theory and moral foundations theory, etc. Moreover, moral foundations theory and dyadic morality theory are the typical representatives of the debates between monism and pluralism. The two theories have engaged in a long and inconclusive dialogue on the harm, purity, modular claims, and moral foundations of politics. Future studies should further explore the monism and pluralism of morality from three specific aspects so as to maintain the vitality of theory in the field of moral psychology.
Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2023-03-04
Abstract： With buzzwords such as "tool man", "laborer" and “corporate slave” sweeping the workplace, workplace objectification has become an urgent topic to be discussed. With the increasing use of artificial intelligence, especially robots in the workplace, the workplace effects produced by robots are also worth paying attention to. Therefore, the present paper aims to explore whether people’s perception of robots’ threat to them will produce or aggravate workplace objectification. On the basis of reviewing the related research on workplace objectification and robot workforce, and combined with intergroup threat theory, this paper elaborates the realistic threat to human employment and security caused by robot workforce, as well as the identity threat to human identity and uniqueness. From the perspective of compensatory control theory, this paper proposes the deep mechanisms and boundary conditions of that perceiving robot threat will reduce people's sense of control, thereby stimulating the control compensation mechanism, which in turn leads to workplace objectification. This research is composed of eight studies. The first study includes two sub-studies, which investigate the relationship between perceived robot threat and workplace objectification through questionnaires and online experiments. This study tries to find a positive correlation and a causal association between perceived robot threat and workplace objectification. The second study includes three sub-studies, which explore why perceived robot threat increases workplace objectification. This study tries to verify the mediating effect of control compensation (sense of control), to explain the psychological mechanism behind the effect of perceived robot threat on workplace objectification, and to repeatedly verify it through different research methods. The third study includes three sub-studies. Based on the three compensatory control strategies proposed by the control compensation theory in addition to affirming nonspecific structure, this study tries to further explore the moderating effect of personal agency, external agency, and specific structure. The main findings of this paper are as follows. First, perceived robot threat will increase workplace objectification, and perceived robot identity threat has a stronger effect. Second, the sense of control plays a mediating role in the effect of perceived robot threat (mainly identity threat) on workplace objectification. Specifically, the higher the perceived robot identity threat, the lower the sense of control, and the more serious the workplace objectification. Third, the other three strategies proposed by compensatory control theory, namely strengthening personal agency, supporting external agency and affirming specific structure, can moderate the effect of perceived robot threat on workplace objectification. The main theoretical contributions of this paper are as follows. First, it reveals the negative influence of robots on interpersonal relationships and their psychological mechanism. Second, it extends the explanatory boundary of compensatory control theory to the field of artificial intelligence, proposing and verifying that perceived robot threat increases workplace objectification through compensatory control. Third, the relationship between different compensation control strategies is discussed, and the moderating model of perceived robot threat affecting workplace objectification is proposed and verified. The main practical contributions are: first, to provide reference for the anthropomorphic design of robots; second, it helps to better understand, warn and deal with the negative social impact of robots.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2022-07-22
Abstract： Algorithms are often used for decision-making. However, algorithmic decision-making is more related to different responses in individuals than human decision-making on the same content. The phenomenon is defined as the algorithmic decision-making approach and avoidance. The approach means that algorithmic decision-making is considered fairer, less biased, less discriminatory, more trustworthy, and more acceptable than human decision-making. But the avoidance is the other way around. To explain the phenomenon of the algorithmic decision-making approach and avoidance better, the process motivation model of algorithmic decision-making approach and avoidance is employed in the review. It summarizes three stages of the interaction between human and algorithm, namely, the interaction of initial behavior, the establishment of quasi-social relationship and the formation of identity. Moreover, it elaborates how cognitional, relational, and existential motivation trigger individual approach and avoidance responses in each specific stage. For future directions, we suggest that more researches are needed to explore how mind perception and intergroup perception influence algorithmic decision-making approach and avoidance. Meanwhile, what is the reversal process of algorithmic decision-making approach and avoidance from a more social perspective and what other possible motivations are associated with it are also worth of considered.
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