Figure 1.
Grouping criteria based on responses to impersonal and personal moral scenarios.
Table 1.
Mean (SD) values for demographic variables and data obtained from Experiment 1 with questionnaires measuring moral knowledge, religiosity, and empathy.
Figure 2.
Empathic concern values for participants in the UTIL, NON-UTIL, and MAJORITY groups on the pairs of moral scenarios for Experiments 1 and 2.
In both cases, UTIL participants had significantly lower empathic concern scores than participants in the NON-UTIL and MAJORITY groups. Error bars represent S.E.M.
Table 2.
Mean (SD) values for moral knowledge, religiosity, and empathy questionnaires for participants who responded “YES” or “NO”, independently, to each moral scenario from Experiment 1.
Figure 3.
Distribution of UTIL (blue), DEON (orange), and MAJORITY (green) participants with regards to the two functions generated by discriminatory analysis.
Red squares represent group centroids and reveal that UTIL participants are best distinguished from the other groups on the basis of function 1, for which empathic concern had the strongest load factor (see text).
Table 3.
Loading matrix of correlations for discriminant analyses conducted in Experiments 1.
Table 4.
Mean (SD) values for demographic variables and data obtained with the moral knowledge, religiosity, and empathy questionnaires for Experiment 2.
Figure 4.
Scores obtained on the Perspective Taking (PT), Fantasy (F), Empathic Concern (EC), and Personal Distress (PD) subdomains of empathy for (A) selfish vs. non-selfish responses on the prudential taxes dilemma and (B) utilitarian vs. non-utilitarian responses on the personal transplant dilemma of Experiment 3.
A significant difference (**p<.001) was exclusively found on empathic concern between utlitarian and non-utilitarian responders on the personal dilemma. Error bars represent S.E.M.