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Perceptions of social dangers, moral foundations, and political orientation
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The authors found that higher perceptions of social dangers and greater emphases on the binding moral foundations (relative to the individualizing foundations) were associated with explicitly and implicitly measured conservatism, and there was evidence that a "conservative pattern" of moral attitudes mediates the relationship between perceived social danger and political conservatism.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2009-08-01. It has received 207 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Moral foundations theory & Biology and political orientation.read more
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Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism
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?
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Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes
TL;DR: This paper studied the psychological underpinnings of culture war attitudes using Moral Foundations Theory and found that endorsement of five moral foundations predicted judgments about these issues over and above ideology, age, gender, religious attendance, and interest in politics.
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Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology
TL;DR: This article found that significant ideological asymmetries exist with respect to dogmatism, cognitive/perceptual rigidity, personal needs for order/structure/closure, integrative complexity, tolerance of ambiguity/uncertainty, need for cognition, cognitive reflection, self-deception, and subjective perceptions of threat.
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Political Ideology Predicts Perceptions of the Threat of COVID-19 (and Susceptibility to Fake News About It)
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between political ideology and perceptions of the threat of COVID-19 and found that due to Republican leadership's initial downplaying of the potential threat, the resulting public distrust of the proposed legislation increased.
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The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing Moral Judgment by Redefining Harm:
Chelsea Schein,Kurt Gray +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that harm should be redefined as an intuitively perceived continuum, and this redefinition provides a new understanding of moral content and mechanism—the constructionist Theory of Dyadic Morality.
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Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations.
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TL;DR: Efron and Tibshirani as discussed by the authors used bootstrap tests to assess mediation, finding that the sampling distribution of the mediated effect is skewed away from 0, and they argued that R. M. Kenny's (1986) recommendation of first testing the X --> Y association for statistical significance should not be a requirement when there is a priori belief that the effect size is small or suppression is a possibility.
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The Authoritarian Personality
TL;DR: The Authoritarian Personality "invented a set of criteria by which to define personality traits, ranked these traits and their intensity in any given person on what it called the 'F scale' (F for fascist)".