The Influence of Cleanliness Behavior and Cleanliness Perception on Moral Judgment

Dongxia Wang; Chen Chen; Shuangzhen Lin

doi:10.6918/IJOSSER.202603_9(3).0017

Authors

Dongxia Wang
Chen Chen
Shuangzhen Lin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202603_9(3).0017

Keywords:

Clean behavior, Clean cognition, Stroop paradigm, Moral judgment

Abstract

This study examines the influence of clean priming types on moral judgments. Using the Stroop paradigm, participants were asked to judge the part-of-speech of moral and immoral words under clean behavioral and clean cognitive priming conditions. Results indicate a strong association between clean priming and moral judgments, with different clean priming types exerting distinct effects on moral judgment directionality.

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