Morality And Morality

Morality can be described as standards of the ideal man, or a law striving for perfection in humans (Spencer, H 1892). Francesca Gino and Cassie Mogilner in their 2013 experiment tested and proved a theory that priming money and time will cause differences in moral attitude. Looking further into this experiment it could be argued that it was not time or money in itself that caused a change in moral behavior, but time and money subconsciously caused a change in self-reflection which influenced ethical behavior. Thus Gino and Mogilner (2013) effectively proved a link between an indirect, yet consistent, link between time, money and morality. By use of imagination it can be deduced that this information could be beneficial in manipulating or even exposing ethical and moral behavior in society, including the possibility of increasing self-awareness to extract ideal behaviours in civilisation.
Although apparent strong links between self-reflection and morality are found Gino and Mogilners experiment, it is possible other factors can positively influence self-reflection yet read a significantly lower the moral actions of the individual. An experiment performed by Swann, William B. Jr. et al. (2014) investigated morality and the influence on emotional connection to those who the moral decision would affect. The test returned interesting results and although its results do not directly conflict with the focus papers experiment, it is something that shows a factor that was not measured. The experiment involved a scenario of self-sacrifice for the survival of 5 others. It was found that although most participants knew that the moral choice was the sacrifice, in a scenario where the participant had no emotional relation to the survivors, ac...

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...olated human is involved. The data, although valid is restricted to purely on how the independent variables act upon an individual, not an individual impacted by a groups input or even a group as a whole. This therefore restricts how relevant this data can be towards the real world and society, as most of a human day is made up of social interaction with different people and groups. Groups of differing levels of previous interaction or attachment can return different levels of morality to the same scenario (Swann, William B. Jr. et al. 2014). This shows that a group effect can lead to results that clash with research done on purely individuals. It could be concluded that Gino and Mogilners research is sufficiently valid but to specific circumstances in which an individual’s decision is made purely by themselves, and not make bias by the impact of a society or group.