Melfi’s Choice: Morally Conflicted Content Leads to Moral Rumination in Viewers

Figures & data

Table 1. Pearson’s correlation between variables.

	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. Gender	0.08	.31**	.23**	.24**	0.03	0.11	.29**	0.14
2. Vigilantism	–	.38**	0.00	−0.01	−.36**	0.14	0.12	−0.09
3. Punitiveness		–	0.13	.31**	−0.12	.16*	.29**	−0.01
4. Liking			–	.36**	−0.01	.27**	.47**	.18*
5. Sympathy				–	−0.08	.28**	.34**	.18*
6. Agreement					–	−.20*	−0.01	0.11
7. Transportation						–	.59**	.29**
8. Appreciation							–	.24**
9. Rumination								–

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.

Table 2. Appreciation regressed on individual difference variables, character variables, and moral rumination.

	Step 1		Step 2		Step 3
	B(SEB)	β	B(SEB)	β	B(SEB)	β
Gender	.60 (.23)	.21**	.30 (.22)	.11	.26 (.22)	.09
Vigilantism	.01 (.11)	.01	.06 (.10)	.05	.07 (.10)	.05
Punitiveness	.37 (.15)	.21**	.24 (.14)	.14*	.26 (.14)	.15*
Liking			.63 (.12)	.37***	.60 (.13)	.35**
Sympathy			.25 (.14)	.13*	.21 (.14)	.11
Rumination					.27 (.12)	.16**
F	6.55***		12.11***		11.23***
R^2	.11		.30		.32

*p < .05. **p < .01.. ***p < .001.