Moral emotions and behavior
Research Group of the department of General and Biological Psychology at Technische Universität Chemnitz

- Cognitive Antecedents of Moral Emotions: Responsibility, Perceived morality of actions, Considerations of Right vs. Wrong, Goal-attainment, Effort and Ability
- Moral Emotions and Subsequent Behavior: Help-giving, Granting Benefits, Reward, Punishment
- Functional Value of Moral Emotions: The signal function of moral emotions, continuation vs. change of behaviors (Stop- vs. go-signals)
- Specific Moral Emotions and Specific Contexts: Schadenfreude and Sympathy in Children, Differences and Similarities between Shame & Guilt as well as Sympathy & Schadenfreude, Autobiographical Recollections of Moral Emotions, Behavioral Consequences of Negative Moral Observer Emotions (anger, indignation, contempt), Distinction between Moral and Non-Moral Emotions
- Moral Emotions and Personality: Psychopathy, Empathy, Perfectionism
- Physiological Correlates of Moral Emotions and Subsequent Behaviors: Cognitive Effort, Approach vs. Avoidance motivation, Patterns of Cortical Activation, Event-Related Potentials
Research Methods
- Thought experiments
- Scenario-based interviews
- Autobiographical recollections
- Picture stories
- Reaction times
- Skin conductance level
- Heart rate
- EEG
Persons
- Prof. Dr. Udo Rudolph
- Dr. Nadine Tscharaktschiew
- Dipl.-Psych. Frank Schössow
Publications
Körner, A., Tscharaktschiew, N., Schindler, R., Schulz, K., & Rudolph, U. (2016). The everyday moral judge – Autobiographical recollections of moral emotions. PLOS ONE, 11(12), e0167224. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137669
Körner, A., Schössow, F., & Rudolph, U. (2016). Emotional disapproval – Cognitive and social determinants of anger, indignation, and contempt. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Körner, A., Schindler, R., & Hahnemann, T. (in press). How moral emotions affect the probability of relapse. In P. A. Granhag, R. Bull, A. Shaboltas, & E. Dozortseva (Eds.), Psychology and law in Europe: When West meets East. New York: CRC Press.
Schindler, R., Körner, A., Bauer, S., Hadji, S., & Rudolph, U. (2015). Causes and Consequences of Schadenfreude and Sympathy: A Developmental Analysis. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0137669. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137669
Rudolph, U., & Tscharaktschiew, N. (2014). An attributional analysis of moral emotions: Naïve scientists and everyday judges. Emotion Review, 6(4). 1-9. doi:10.1177/1754073914534507
Tscharaktschiew, N. (2014). Actions and outcomes: The evaluative function of moral emotions. Technische Universität: Chemnitz.
Rudolph, U., Schulz, K., & Tscharaktschiew, N. (2013). The moral emotions: An analysis guided by Heider’s naive action analysis. International Journal of Advances in Psychology,2(2), 69-92.
Schulz, K., Rudolph, A., Tscharaktschiew, N., & Rudolph, U. (2013). Daniel has fallen into a muddy puddle – Schadenfreude or sympathy?. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31(4), 363-378. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12013.
Schulz, K. (2011). Moral emotions. Technische Universität: Chemnitz.
Rudolph, U., Roesch, S. C., Greitemeyer, T., & Weiner, B. (2004). A meta-analytic review of help-giving and aggression from an attributional perspective: Contributions to a general theory of motivation. Cognition and Emotion, 18(6), 815-848. doi:10.1080/02699930341000248