Influences of Emotional Factors and Academic Background upon the Undergraduates Making Moral Judgment of Socio-Scientific Issues

• Main Authors: Wan-Ying Lin, 林宛瑩
• Other Authors: Wen-Hwa Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91610088808385535288

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 生命科學研究所 === 102 === Socio-scientific Issues (SSI) in Science curriculum has been widely used. Student’s moral judgments influence their socio-scientific decision-making. It’s worthwhile to do further study about the relationship between student’s professional background as well as emotion in moral judgment. In this study, we use an eye tracker to record the process when undergraduates of different professional background making moral judgment with reading the SSI scenarios which are composed of science concepts and emotional description. The present study selected four main themes of the socioscientific topics - agriculture, food, environment and medicine, under the Newly Revised High School Curriculum Guidelines (12-Basic Guidelines) of Applied Biology. 97 Participants were recruited from the Internet and be individually tested in the study. In pretest, we used the Q methodology to measure students’ emotion when reading SSI sentences with biology professional group (N=32) and non-biology professional group (N=31). In Experiment, we used the eye tracking method to compare the eye movements and moral judgments with biology professional group (N=17) and non-biology professional group (N=17). The results indicated that, when doing moral judgment, students with different professional backgrounds was not significantly different in reaction time and fixation zone. However, the eye movements of the students were different significantly between different emotion scenarios or socioscientific topics. Reaction time of the medicine topic was significantly higher than environment topic; Total fixation duration was significantly higher in area of negative emotional description. According to literature, emotion interacts with moral judgment, we suggest that the two groups do not differ significantly in moral judgment.