Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians

Iyer, Ravi; Koleva, Spassena; Graham, Jesse; Ditto, Peter H.; Haidt, Jonathan

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“…The experiment concluded with a series of demographic questions, including a single item measure of political affiliation (Iyer, Koleva, Graham, Ditto, & Haidt, 2012), and a debriefing.…”

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Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Moral and physical magnitude ratings of officer and civilian actions

Celestin¹

2018

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Most police agencies in the United States rely on a rank-ordered categorization of forceful actions, along with decision heuristics for appropriate force options in response to civilian actions. We had lay people rate the moral and physical severity of officer reactions to civilian actions, and vice versa. The actions were representative of the entire range of force options in official police policy and realistic police-civilian conflicts. Results showed that ratings of moral severity of a reaction decreased as severity of the initial action increased, and that ratings of both police and civilian reactions were modulated by individual differences in beliefs about police legitimacy. High-legitimacy participants tended to rate lethal police actions following lethal civilian actions as acceptable, but low-legitimacy participants rated lethal police actions much lower. Thus, higher legitimacy seems to yield a willingness to accept lethal police force if civilian resistance is sufficiently severe, while individuals with low legitimacy may never perceive lethal police actions as acceptable. Similarly, low-legitimacy participants were much more accepting of civilian violence against police than high-legitimacy participants, and rated violent civilian reactions as deserving less severe punishment. High-legitimacy participants also tended to rate low-severity police reactions as insufficient when civilian actions were severe, but lowlegitimacy participants did not. Finally, even when actions and re-actions were exactly matched, more severe officer and civilian actions both tended to be perceived as somewhat excessive for all participants regardless of legitimacy beliefs, though likely for different reasons. USE-OF-FORCE APPROPRIATENESS 2

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“…The experiment concluded with a series of demographic questions, including a single item measure of political affiliation (Iyer, Koleva, Graham, Ditto, & Haidt, 2012), and a debriefing.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Moral and physical magnitude ratings of officer and civilian actions

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2018

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“…Haidt (2008) Within the MFT literature, political ideology has served as the critical source of distinction related to moral foundations, with studies consistently suggesting that selfidentified liberals and conservatives endorse each of the six moral foundations to varying degrees (Haidt, 2012;Haidt & Graham, 2007;Iyer, Koleva, Graham, Ditto, & Haidt, 2012).…”

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Applying moral foundations theory to understanding public views of sexual offending

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2016

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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Much research has examined the views held by citizens about sexual offenders and related policy responses. Although studies have extensively examined demographic correlates of such views, little attention has been paid to psychological mechanisms that underpin them. Gaining a deeper understanding of such mechanisms may ultimately prove useful for informing communication strategies around the problem of sexual violence. We propose the application of moral foundations theory as a means of exploring the roots of the current punitive consensus around sexual crime policy at the macro level, as well as individual variability in attitudes about sexual violence. Following an overview of the sexual offender policy landscape, and a description of MFT principles, we outline how this framework can help to explain both convergence and divergence in responses to sexual offending among members of the public. We also provide a series of testable hypotheses to stimulate further research in this area

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“…These foundations are (somewhat simplified): care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and sanctity. A sixth moral foundation, liberty, has also been suggested (Iyer et al 2012). According to this literature, American liberals tend to endorse care, fairness and liberty, while U.S. conservatives endorse all the moral foundations (with emphasis on loyalty, authority and sanctity).…”

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Market, State, and Morality: Two Studies of How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System

Wennström¹

2017

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The bulk of the literature on the New Public Management (NPM) has been blind to the moral dimension of the market-oriented reforms of the public sector. However, this thesis studies the potential for institutional arrangements such as financial incentives and other market mechanisms to undermine intrinsic, moral motivation among both "producers" and "consumers" of tax-financed welfare services. The first paper demonstrates how the promotion of NPM-like ideas by various left-wing and right-wing agents after 1968 led to the erosion of a professional ethos among Swedish teachers. The second paper shows how an ill-conceived school voucher reform in Sweden, implemented under the banner of NPM, has encouraged moral hazard on the part of schools. The thesis demonstrates an ecumenism between the left and right that with few exceptions has been overlooked in political science. It also demonstrates that public administration systems that have adopted market-oriented reforms need morality in order to function in accordance with the principles underlying these institutions.

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Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians

Cited by 512 publications

References 74 publications

Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Moral and physical magnitude ratings of officer and civilian actions

Lay evaluations of police and civilian use of force: Moral and physical magnitude ratings of officer and civilian actions

Applying moral foundations theory to understanding public views of sexual offending

Market, State, and Morality: Two Studies of How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System

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