International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience

Price, Richard; Sikkink, Kathryn

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“…Our study also contributes an important finding concerning the application of the MFT, a promising theoretical framework to study moral intuitions relevant to our field (Price and Sikkink 2021). Graham et al (2011) previously found that while the MFT has universal applicability, there are substantial cross-cultural variations across regions, particularly with respect to the differences between Western and non-Western countries.…”

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confidence: 70%

From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO

Smetana

Onderčo

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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This article presents findings of an original survey experiment on public attitudes toward nuclear use conducted on a representative sample of Russian citizens. We randomly assigned our participants to experimental treatments with vignettes describing a military conflict between Russia and NATO in the Baltics, where Moscow considered a limited nuclear “escalate-to-deescalate” strike to avert defeat. Our findings show that Russians are significantly more averse to nuclear strikes than to the corresponding use of conventional missiles. The participants disapproved similarly of a demonstrative nuclear explosion in an unpopulated area and of nuclear strikes in a more escalated scenario. We also found associations between the moral values of individuals and strike support corresponding to earlier studies in the United States. Finally, our participants reported similar concerns about both nuclear and conventional strikes, with the worry about civilian casualties and the suffering of victims at the top of the list across experimental treatments.

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From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO

Smetana

Onderčo

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Some may argue that all norms do ultimately depend on moral instincts or ideas. But baking morality into the definition is problematic, as norms can generate a sense of obligation without having an obvious moral component (see also Price and Sikkink, 2021: 4). The shared expectations about appropriate behavior that characterize norms can also have social, legal, or professional origins.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Methodologically, this approach usually relies on surveys. We adapt it to interviews, answering Price and Sikkink’s (2021: 36) call for International Relations (IR) norms scholars to test “hypotheses generated in moral psychology using traditional political-science methods.”…”

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Disentangling norms, morality, and principles: the September 2019 Brexit rebellion

Stimmer

Gliserman

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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Despite morality’s important role in international relations, we still lack a compelling way to study it. Some scholars define norms as moral in nature but fail to define morality or conceptualize it too narrowly. We address this problem by defining morality subjectively, allowing us to differentiate it from norms and study its impact on decisions of international significance. To do so, we adapt the moral convictions concept developed by psychologists to qualitative, elite-focused political research. Actors with moral convictions rely upon their individually held beliefs about fundamental right and wrong, whereas norm-followers look outward to community expectations. Morality requires sincere belief and weakens social influences. The September 2019 Brexit rebellion is an ideal case because it endangered rebels’ careers, rendering material self-interest an unlikely motive. This allows us to investigate the role of norms and moral principles. Based on interviews with British Members of Parliament (MPs) and text analysis, we find that community norms and personal moral principles interact: when existing norms give unclear guidance and identification with their in-group weakens, actors are likely to rely on their own principles to interpret norms. Morality can affect which norms matter but does not negate their influence altogether: pre-existing norms channel and constrain morality and its consequences. Many MPs moralized existing norms related to democratic decision-making, which mitigated some consequences of moralization, such as intolerance toward those with opposing views. This new conceptual and methodological approach thus helps to disentangle ideational factors and understand their influence on decisions of international significance.

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“…In view of these developments, I complement scholarship on emotions and constructivist perspectives in particular and adopt a Bourdieusian approach to theorize the emergence of eco-grief. Constructivism advanced scholarship on emotions, but constructivists still grapple with the question of how emotions and norms emerge (Price and Sikkink, 2021). In their seminal article on norm entrepreneurs, Finnemore and Sikkink (1998) recognized emotions as a motivation for activism.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A turn to emotion entrepreneurs and emotional dynamics in transnational advocacy coalitions accords with developments in constructivism and implies extensions to available constructivist theories (Price and Sikkink, 2021). For example, during the development of the boomerang model, describing information sharing patterns among activists (Keck and Sikkink, 1998), constructivists analyzed scientific insights or normative frames but no emotional vocabularies.…”

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Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs

Holthaus

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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This article conceives of climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs to explain the emergence of particular emotional responses to climate change. Among these emotional responses is eco-grief or grief felt because of experienced or anticipated ecological losses. I elaborate on the concept of the emotion entrepreneur and theorize the emergence of eco-grief on the basis of a practice theoretical and Bourdieusian approach. I suggest that activists possessing cultural capital are well positioned to introduce new feelings and identify three mechanisms that contribute to explanations of the emergence and growing importance of eco-grief. Objectivation is about the most often reflexive practice of giving names to emotions to turn them into ontological entities. Cultivation is about the creation of social spaces for the experience and regulation of eco-grief among activists. Diffusion is about emotional contagion, the creation of emotional vocabularies, and the spread of activist feeling rules. Research on emotion entrepreneurs moves beyond conceptions of feelings as causes of activism and suggests there is a need for further research on emotional dynamics in heterogenous transnational advocacy coalitions, influences of language on emotions, and feelings rules in late-modern Western societies.

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International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience

Cited by 20 publications

References 126 publications

From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO

From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO

Disentangling norms, morality, and principles: the September 2019 Brexit rebellion

Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs

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