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Moral reasoning does not occur in a social vacuum. One important interpersonal influence on moral reasoning appears to be attachment style (eg Kogut & Kogut. 2013, Koleva et al., 2014).This is not surprising given that attachment style represents a fundamental lens through which adults interpret their social environment (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007). In the pretest. we found that (a) both anxious and avoidant attachment were associated with decreased wrongness ratings for the utilitarian course of action and (b) this association could not be explained by neuroticism. In Studies 1 and 2 we found that while the moral judgment output was the same for anxious and avoidant people the pattern of associations differed. Anxious attachment predicted a higher need to belong. which in turn was associated with greater focus on the group as a whole. This translated into wrongness judgments that prioritized the welfare of the group as a whole over the welfare of the sacrificed individual. On the other hand, avoidant attachment was related to discomfort with caring for others, which in turn was associated with less empathy for the individual to be harmed. Lower empathy toward the victim was associated with viewing the act of sacrificing an individual for the good of the group as less wrong. This pattern is consistent with recent results reported by Kogut and Kogut (2013) in which anxiously attached individuals donated more money to identifiable victims than to unidentifiable victims, while avoidant individuals donated equivalent (and lower) amounts of money to identifiable and unidentifiable victims According to our framework. because anxiously attached individuals are powerfully motivated to seek social acceptance, they are more willing to provide help when there is a possibility of their help being recognized Similarly, in utilitarian dilemmas, providing help to the larger number of people increases the likelihood of recognition and acceptance.
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