The role of cognitive resources in determining our moral intuitions: Are we all liberals at heart?

Wright, Jennifer; Baril, Galen L.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.014

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“…Moreover, when randomly assigned to give their first "gut" reactions on the MFQ, participants across the political spectrum indicated that their answers were the same as their consciously endorsed opinions, indicating that liberals are unaware of the discrepancy between their implicit and explicit moralities. In contrast to these studies, Wright and Baril (2011) found that cognitive load or ego depletion manipulations decreased MFQ endorsements of Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity among conservatives. Although two large studies using different samples have failed to replicate this effect, more work needs to be done to test whether conservatives also have implicit-explicit discrepancies in their moralities, particularly for Care and Fairness concerns.…”

Section: Implicit Morality Across Ideologycontrasting

confidence: 85%

Moral Foundations Theory

Graham

Haidt

Koleva

et al. 2013

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Section: Implicit Morality Across Ideologycontrasting

confidence: 85%

Moral Foundations Theory

Graham

Haidt

Koleva

et al. 2013

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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“…First, Van Leeuwen and Park (2009) demonstrated that authoritarianism, social dominance, and conservative moral intuitions share key psychological antecedents, such as perceptions of a dangerous world-consistent (rather than inconsistent, as Haidt & Graham, 2007, claimed) with Jost et al's (2003) analysis of political conservatism as motivated social cognition (see also Wright & Baril, 2011). Second, Federico, Weber, Ergun, and Hunt (2013) conducted two large surveys of undergraduate students and reported that scores on a right-wing authoritarianism scale were strongly and positively correlated with endorsement of ingroup, authority, and purity concerns, whereas scores on a social dominance orientation scale were negatively correlated with concerns about fairness and avoidance of harm.…”

Section: A Critical Perspective On Moral Foundations Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Explain Liberal-Conservative Differences in “Moral” Intuitions?

2014

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Moral foundations theorists propose that the moral domain should include not only ''liberal'' ethics of justice and care but also ostensibly ''conservative'' concerns about the virtues of ingroup loyalty, obedience to authority, and enforcement of purity standards. This proposal clashes with decades of research in political psychology connecting the latter set of characteristics to ''the authoritarian personality.'' We demonstrate that liberal-conservative differences in moral intuitions are statistically mediated by authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, so that conservatives' greater valuation of ingroup, authority, and purity concerns is attributable to higher levels of authoritarianism, whereas liberals' greater valuation of fairness and harm avoidance is attributable to lower levels of social dominance. We also find that ingroup, authority, and purity concerns are positively associated with intergroup hostility and support for discrimination, whereas concerns about fairness and harm avoidance are negatively associated with these variables. These findings might lead some to question the wisdom and appropriateness of efforts to ''broaden'' scientific conceptions of morality in such a way that preferences based on authoritarianism and social dominance are treated as Some of the ideas pursued in this research were first suggested by the second author at the

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“…As there has not been a lot of research showing how experimental manipulations influence moral foundations (e.g., Napier & Luguri, 2013;Van Berkel, Crandall, Eidelman & Blanchar, 2015;Wright & Baril, 2011), we tried to manipulate the cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism of Turkish participants to better understand the content of the moral foundations in Turkey. More specifically, we hypothesized that collectivism priming leads to a shift toward binding foundations, whereas individualism priming leads to a shift toward individualizing foundations.…”

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Validation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire in Turkey and its relation to cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism

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Harma

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Personality and Individual Differences

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Although Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) is claimed to be universally applicable, the data brought to bear in its support come from a self-selected population with mostly English-speaking participants. To the best of our knowledge, the theory has not been hitherto tested in a predominantly Muslim country with non-western moral and religious sensibilities. In Study 1, we replicated previous findings using Turkish participants by showing through confirmatory factor analyses that the 5-factor structure of MFT provided a better fit than alternative models. In Study 2, the participants' cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism were experimentally manipulated to see the distinctness and separate manipulability of the five individual foundations. The individualism prime led to an increased concern with the harm dimension whereas the collectivism manipulation led to an increased concern with the loyalty dimension. Taken together, the findings suggest that the 5-factor model of morality is the best fitting model in Turkey as well and that it is useful in predicting the results of cultural prime manipulations.

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The role of cognitive resources in determining our moral intuitions: Are we all liberals at heart?

Cited by 74 publications

References 23 publications

Moral Foundations Theory

Moral Foundations Theory

Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Explain Liberal-Conservative Differences in “Moral” Intuitions?

Validation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire in Turkey and its relation to cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism

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