Economic and Social Political Ideology and Homophobia: The Mediating Role of Binding and Individualizing Moral Foundations

Politics, concern for future generations, and the environment: Generativity mediates political conservatism and environmental attitudes

“…Although the link between political conservatism and generativity stands in contrast to some previous research, this relationship is consistent with the findings in other areas of literature. For example, a body of literature has found that, with regards to moral decision‐making, conservatives tend to emphasize binding moral foundations (Barnett et al, ; Kivikangas, Lönnqvist, & Ravaja, ; Leeuwen & Park, ) and liberals tend to emphasize moral foundations associated with individual rights. This may mean that conservatives, by emphasizing moral foundations that emphasize the well‐being of society as a whole, may have higher generativity.…”

“…Research regarding political ideology has been limited by the use of oversimplified conceptualizations of political constructs, rather than incorporating the complex minutiae of ideas and interests (Choma, Hafer, Sealowtiz, & Busseri, 2012;Everett, 2013;Jost, Federico, & Napier, 2009). One way to address this issue is through utilizing a multidimensional approach: one that considers both social issues (e.g., abortion) and economic issues (e.g., fiscal policy; Barnett, Öz, & Marsden, 2018;Everett, 2013). Similar limitations are found in studies of environmental attitudes, which often utilize brief unidimensional measures (Kitamura, Mokhtarian, & Laidet, 1997) or only addressing issues relating to one specific event (Mahafza, Stoutenborough, & Vedlitz, 2017;Wang, Lee, & Polonsky, 2018).…”

Reanalyzing the factor structure of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

“…In support of this view, some researchers have dispensed with the five-or six-factor structure, and instead use the broad categories of 'individualizing' (a combination of care and fairness) and 'binding' (a combination of authority, loyalty, and purity) foundations (see Alper & Yilmaz, 2020;Barnett et al, 2018;Malka et al, 2016;Napier & Luguri, 2013;Smith et al, 2014). These cited works do not consider Iyer et al's (2012) liberty-related items, as they did not form a core part of the initial MFQ (Graham et al, 2009(Graham et al, , 2012.…”

“…Moral foundations theory (MFT; Haidt & Joseph, 2004) is a theoretical framework of moral decision-making. It has been applied to a range of areas of study, such as selfidentified political ideology (Clifford, 2017;Franks & Scherr, 2015;Graham et al, 2009; 2012; Haidt & Graham, 2007;Iyer et al, 2012;Nilsson & Erlandsson, 2015), specific sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors (Barnett et al, 2018;Dickinson et al, 2016;Low & Wui, 2016), public health messaging (Christie et al, 2019), judgments of crime (Harper & Harris, 2017;Silver & Silver, 2017;Vaughan et al, 2019), and perceptions of leadership and business ethics (e.g., Egorov et al, 2019). The theory is grounded in cultural and evolutionary psychology and anthropology, and is designed to provide a universal conceptualization of the human moral landscape (Doğtuyol et al, 2019).…”

Morality, Activism and Radicalism in the Brazilian Left and the Brazilian Right

“…Besides favoring the understanding of specifi c political stances (liberal vs. conservative), the moral foundations also contribute to the understanding of various phenomena often discussed within the political scope such as punitive sentences (Silver & Silver, 2017), homophobia (Barnett, Öz, & Marsden, 2018), attitudes about rape (Barnett & Hilz, 2018), and pro-environment attitudes (Wolsko, 2017). This research has also started a discussion on the extent to which the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) can be understood as a Political Ideology Theory (see Smith, Alford, Hibbing, Martin, & Hatemi, 2017 for a more detailed discussion).…”