Exploring the Association between Social Information Processing Attribution Bias and Moral Judgment Style

Pages: 169-174
Rupal Sorkhel, Deepshikha Ray, and Jayati Bhattacharyya (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal)

Morality has been a topic of avid interest among researchers with several attempts at defining it. The present research tries to study the relationship between social information processing attribution bias and moral judgment style in the Indian population by using the Social Information Processing-Attribution Bias Questionnaire (SIP-ABQ, Coccaro et al., 2009) and Moral Judgement Style Scale (Bhattacharyya & Ray, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 2021). The sample consists of 206 young adults (aged between 19 to 33 years) out of which 100 are male and 106 are female. The results reveal that ‘instrumental intent’ significantly predicts ‘moral judgment style’ in both male and female participants while benign intent significantly predicts ‘moral judgment style’ only in female participants.