Sena Koleva

TL;DR: The Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) as discussed by the authors was created to answer these questions, including: where does morality come from? Why are moral judgments often so similar across cultures, yet sometimes so variable? Is morality one thing, or many?

TL;DR: The Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) as discussed by the authors was created to answer these questions, including: where does morality come from? Why are moral judgments often so similar across cultures, yet sometimes so variable? Is morality one thing, or many?

TL;DR: The authors found that, compared to liberals and conservatives, libertarians show stronger endorsement of individual liberty as their foremost guiding principle and correspondingly weaker endorsement of other moral principles, a relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional intellectual style, and lower interdependence and social relatedness.

TL;DR: Selterman et al. as discussed by the authors examined moral judgments toward relationship betrayals, and how these judgments depended on whether characters and their actions were perceived to be pure and loyal compared to the level of harm caused.

TL;DR: This article found that women have stronger moral concerns related to care and purity, are less utilitarian, have a stronger sense of moral identity, and moralize everyday actions more than men, and these effects are mediated by gender differences in the emotion tendencies of empathic concern and disgust sensitivity.