Does background color affect moral judgment? A registered replication report of Zarkadi and Schnall’s (2013) Study 1

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Vezirian ◽  
Hans IJzerman ◽  
laurent begue ◽  
Elisa Sarda
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Background Color ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Dead End ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Colored Background ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Sequential Analyses

Do colored backgrounds lead to polarized judgments? Zarkadi and Schnall (2013) found in their Study 1 that, indeed, exposing participants to a black-and-white (versus other colored) background polarized participants’ judgments in a moral dilemma task. This study supported a moral intuitionist model of moral judgment and lent further support to so-called Conceptual Metaphor Theories (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999).After a large pilot study (n = 12,322) that failed to replicate this effect, we conducted two strict preregistered replications relying on Bayesian sequential analyses. First study ran on a French-speaking sample (min N = 300, max N = 450) indicated that our data supports the [presence/absence] of an effect and/while data from the second study ran on an English-speaking sample (min N = 300, max N = 450) [also/while] [does not support/supports] the presence/absence of an effect. This research [confirms/failed to confirm] the effect of the background color on a moral dilemma evaluation and indicates that color may [not be/be determinative] in moral judgement formations. [There is thus strong evidence for the link between polarized color and judgments/There is therefore no evidence for the effect and we think that this line of research is a dead end].

Does background color affect moral judgment? Three pre-registered replications of Zarkadi and Schnall’s (2012) Study 1

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans IJzerman ◽  
Pierre-Jean Laine
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Background Color ◽  
Wide Confidence Interval ◽  
Total N ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Colored Background ◽  
The Relationship

Do colored backgrounds lead to polarized judgments? Zarkadi and Schnall (2012) found in their Study 1 that, indeed, exposing participants to a black-and-white (versus other colored) background polarized participants’ judgments in a moral dilemma task. This study supported a moral intuitionist model of moral judgment and lent further support to so-called Conceptual Metaphor Theories (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999). We replicated the effect in three high-powered preregistered studies (total N = 846). We successfully replicated the same result of ZS1 in one study (Study 2), but were unable to replicate the effect in two other studies (Studies 1 and 3). A meso-analysis including both our 3 replications and the original study showed no significant effect of background color on moral judgment. We infer that, based on the wide confidence interval of the original study and the lack of evidence in the replication studies, there is no relationship between color of background and polarized judgments. We call for highly-powered within-designs to study the relationship between color and moral judgment. Materials, data, and code available at https://osf.io/8ksqj/.

Rethinking Canada: Canadian Studies and Study Abroad

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beach ◽  
George Sherman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Admissions ◽  
American University ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Canadian Education ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Canadian Studies ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
English Speaking

Americans have been studying “abroad” in Canada on a freelance basis for generations, and for many different reasons. Certain regions of Canada, for example, provide excellent, close-to-home opportunities to study French and/or to study in a French-speaking environment. Opportunities are available coast-to-coast for “foreign studies” in an English-speaking environment. Additionally, many students are interested in visiting cities or areas from which immediate family members or relatives emigrated to the United States.  Traditionally, many more Canadians have sought higher education degrees in the United States than the reverse. However, this is about to change. Tearing a creative page out of the American university admissions handbook, Canadian universities are aggressively recruiting in the United States with the up-front argument that a Canadian education is less expensive, and a more subtle argument that it is perhaps better.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Beliefs and Opinions on Matters related to Marriage and Sexual Behaviour among French-speaking Catholic Quebecers and English-speaking Protestant Ontarians

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Laplante ◽  
Caia Miller ◽  
Paskall Malherbe
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
General Result ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Family Behaviour

The authors argue that the important changes in behaviour related to family and sexual life that were seen in Quebec during the second half of the 20th century are a consequence of a major transformation of the foundation of the normative system shared by the members of Quebec’s main socio-religious group, Frenchspeaking Catholics. Using data from Gallup polls, the authors compare the evolution of the opinions of French-speaking Quebec Catholics and Englishspeaking Ontario Protestants on matters related to sexual and family behaviour from the 1950s to the beginning of the 2000s. The general result is that the evolution of the differences between the two groups is compatible with the hypothesis.

Sensitivity to grammatical marking in english-speaking and French-speaking non-fluent aphasics

Aphasiology ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Nicol ◽  
C. Jakubowicz ◽  
M. C. Goldblum
Keyword(s):  
French Speaking ◽  
English Speaking

scholarly journals In the Company of My Peers: Implementation of RDA in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Cross ◽  
Susan Andrews ◽  
Trina Grover ◽  
Christine Oliver ◽  
Pat Riva
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
The Future ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Training Delivery ◽  
English Canadian ◽  
Resource Description

Describes the progress made toward implementing <i>Resource Description and Access</i> (RDA) in libraries across Canada, as of Fall 2013. Differences in the training experiences in the English-speaking cataloging communities and French-speaking cataloging communities are discussed. Preliminary results of a survey of implementation in English-Canadian libraries are included as well as a summary of the support provided for French-Canadian libraries. Data analysis includes an examination of the rate of adoption in Canada by region and by sector. Challenges in RDA training delivery in a Canadian context are identified, as well as opportunities for improvement and expansion of RDA training in the future.

Autonomous Vehicles and the Attribution of Moral Responsibility

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan M. McManus ◽  
Abraham M. Rutchick
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Fatal Accident ◽  
Attributions Of Blame ◽  
Influence Perceptions

With the imminent advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) comes a moral dilemma: How do people assign responsibility in the event of a fatal accident? AVs necessarily create conditions in which “drivers” yield agency to a machine. The current study examines how people make attributions of blame and praise in this context. Varying the features of AV technology affected how responsible a “driver” (who purchased the vehicle) is perceived to be following a deadly crash. The findings provide support for agency and commission as crucial bases of moral judgment. They also raise questions about how morally contradictory actions are perceived and underscore the need for research examining how moral responsibility is distributed among multiple potentially culpable agents. Pragmatically, these findings suggest that regulating (or declining to regulate) how AVs are programmed may strongly influence perceptions of moral and legal culpability.

The Push to Protect the Oneness of English as a Judicial Language in the Southern Cameroons Jurisdiction of Cameroon

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-574
Author(s):  
Eric Herman Ngwa Nfobin
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Second Look ◽  
French And English ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
English Speaking

The February 2015 crisis whether both official languages, French and English, be used in proceedings in the Anglophone jurisdiction practicing common law, was a reminder that the Cameroon concept of bilingualism still requires definition. At the simplest and most obvious level, the lawyers of the minority English-speaking jurisdiction were protesting against the introduction of a rival language, unfamiliar to their community. A second look unveils proofs of deeper malaise behind what is only the thin end of the wedge. In fact, there are conjoining components originating from misunderstandings traceable back to 1961 when the English-speaking Southern Cameroons and independent French-speaking Cameroon reunited. It is far from the dream that drove them to form a common entity. This article goes below the surface of these dissensions that amount to a veritable ‘Anglophone problem’, which if not properly understood and handled, and allowed to fester, can be the harbinger of disintegration.

scholarly journals Contemplative investigation into Christ consciousness with Heart Prayer and HeartMath practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Edwards ◽  
David J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Human Heart ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Health Perceptions ◽  
Vibrational Resonance ◽  
Spirituality And Health ◽  
Alternative Research ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Age Range

An exploratory pilot study with a small homogenous sample of Christian English speaking participants (four men and four women, with a mean age of 48 and age range from 27 to 70 years) provided support for an alternative research hypothesis that a Christ consciousness contemplation with Heart Prayer of HeartMath techniques was significantly associated with  increasing psychophysiological coherence, sense of coherence, spirituality and health perceptions. Participants described feelings of a peaceful place in oneness and connection with Christ. Integrative findings point towards Christ consciousness as an ultimately non-dual process of sensing vibrational resonance radiating from the human heart. Implications for further research are discussed.

Underlying manifestations of developmental phonological disorders in French-speaking pre-schoolers

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1337-1361
Author(s):  
FRANÇOISE BROSSEAU-LAPRÉ ◽  
SUSAN RVACHEW
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Phonological Processing ◽  
Speech Impairment ◽  
Motor Impairments ◽  
Phonological Disorders ◽  
Oral Motor ◽  
Quebec French ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Overt Speech

AbstractThis study examined the psycholinguistic profiles of Quebec French-speaking children with developmental phonological disorders (DPD). The purpose was to determine whether the endophenotypes that have been identified in English-speaking children with DPD are similarly associated with speech impairment in French-speaking children. Seventy-two children with DPD and ten children with normally developing speech, aged four to six years, received a comprehensive assessment battery that included measures at the phenotype level (i.e. measures of overt speech production skills) and endophenotype level (i.e. measures of potential underlying core deficits such as phonological processing or oral motor impairments). The majority of the children with DPD presented with a psycholinguistic profile indicative of difficulties with phonological processing. Phonological processing skills also explained unique variance in speech production accuracy, indicating that French-speaking children with DPD, who produce different surface speech errors than English-speaking children with DPD, are nonetheless very similar with regards to their underlying psycholinguistic profile.

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