The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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...…and by considering research and theory relating to pathogen avoidance (Curtis et al., 2011; Schaller & Park, 2011), sexual decision making (Buss, 1992; Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; Thornhill & Gangestad, 2008), and moral condemnation (DeScioli & Kurzban, 2009, 2012; Haidt, 2007, 2012; Mikhail, 2008)....
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...Indeed, according to moral foundations theory (Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009; Haidt, 2012; Haidt & Joseph, 2004), one basic moral foundation, purity/sanctity, “is based on the emotion of disgust in response to biological contaminants (e.g., feces or rotten food), and to various social contaminants like spiritual corruption, or the inability to control one’s base impulses” (Koleva, Graham, Iyer, Ditto, & Haidt, 2012, p. 185)....
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...…disgust is one input into the computational systems governing moral judgment, as we argue, we might further observe cultural differences in the strength to which disgust intuitions shape moral rules based on local pathogen ecologies (Graham et al., 2009; Haidt, 2012; Haidt, Koller, & Dias, 1993)....
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...Indeed, according to moral foundations theory (Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009; Haidt, 2012; Haidt & Joseph, 2004), one basic moral foundation, purity/sanctity, “is based on the emotion of disgust in response to biological contaminants (e.g., feces or rotten food), and to various social contaminants…...
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...…foundation, purity/sanctity, “is based on the emotion of disgust in response to biological contaminants (e.g., feces or rotten food), and to various social contaminants like spiritual corruption, or the inability to control one’s base impulses” (Koleva, Graham, Iyer, Ditto, & Haidt, 2012, p. 185)....
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...This body of research indicates that notions of personal autonomy and rights are not tied to “Western” intellectual or cultural traditions (Haidt, 2012), but have relevance to people from diverse cultural backgrounds....
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...…the extreme privileging of deliberation in accounts of everyday conduct (Cerulo, 2010; DiMaggio, 1997; Martin, 2010; Vaisey, 2008; Whitford, 2002).7 How to best conceptualise an alternative remains much disputed, with disciplines other than sociology doing better (e.g. Haidt, 2012; Kahneman, 2011)....
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...…in behavioural economics, cognitive psychology and neuro-science have indicted the dominant models of rational action for their failure to accommodate the automatic, reactive and habitual aspects of most normal human conduct (e.g. Haidt, 2012; Kahneman, 2011; Thaler and Sunstein, 2009)....
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...Finally, emotional reactions, and the moral principles that derive from them, serve interpersonal functions [17,29], such as navigating the social world [30] and forming groups with others [31]....
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...We show how self-described libertarians differ from self-described liberals and conservatives not just on their moral beliefs, but on a variety of personality measures that, given previous research on the emotional [8,30] and social origins of moral reasoning [17,29,33], help us to understand why libertarians may hold their unique pattern of moral beliefs....
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...This expectation is based upon previous research concerning the social function of moral judgment [17,29,33]....
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...Our second goal was to provide further evidence for the dispositional origins of ideology [1,9], the role of intuition in moral attitudes [8], and the role that social functioning plays in moral thinking [17,29,33]....
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...In the next section we explore how these value orientations may also have roots in specific patterns of (and attitudes about) social relationships, consistent with theories about the social function of moral reasoning [17,29,30,33]....
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