This paper explores the influence of close and distant relationships on moral judgment and
the mediating role of hurt perception and moral character by initiating interpersonal relationships with
different degrees of close and distant relationships, and using explicit violation and ambiguous moral
situations. The results show that: (1) Close and distant relationships affect moral judgment. In ambiguous
moral situations, people are more critical to alienating others than to intimate others, but this effect
does not appear in explicit moral violation situations; (2) Close and distant relationships affect people’s
evaluation of moral character. People think that intimacy has a better character than alienation; (3) Hurt
perception and moral character play mediating roles in the influence of Close and distant relationships on
moral judgment.