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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Moral foundations theory"”.
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How Fundraisers Solve Moral Dilemmas: The Role of Implicit Moral Identity, Moral Emotions and Moral Intuition
This study explores the mediating affect of moral emotions on the relationship of implicit moral identity and moral intuition amongst fundraisers. The existing literature highlights the importance of ethical fundraising, as evidenced by criticism in the media (Hill, 2019). In many cases, …
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Just Deserts: The Moral Foundations of Antagonistic Personality in Social Aggression
… al., 2024). Psychopathic personality traits and moral deficits have been linked to antisocial behavior, including social aggression; however, the role of moral value systems and trait moral disengagement in the context of social aggression is less clear. A more granular analysis of their utility …
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Identity, Intergroup Relationships, and Environmental Conflict
… social-psychological theories: self-affirmation theory and moral foundations theory. Through one theoretical review, two online experiments and one in-lab experiment I explore, integrate and test theoretically grounded strategies for reducing the defensive information processing that can …
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Promoting Greater Granularity in Climate Research: A Case Study Analyzing Perceptions of Anthropogenic Climate Change Among Students, Faculty, and Staff at The University of Southern Mississippi
… influences on climate perceptions using the Moral Foundations Theory, as well as obtain differences in views based on generation. In this thesis, I validate risk perception, morality, and generations each as useful methods in understanding climate perceptions. These results demonstrate the …
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See Something, Say Nothing? How an Auditor's Moral Judgments Influence Detected Fraud Reporting
… examines the relationship between an auditor’s moral judgments and their decision to report detected immaterial fraud. Grounding this research in Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), I perform a between-group experiment to examine the influence of the care/harm and fairness/cheating moral foundations …
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Elections Have Consequences: Moral Value Foundations Ensure Gridlock through the Ballot Box
… gridlock in Washington, research in moral psychology has implicated reliance on differing moral value foundations between liberals and conservatives as a determinant of partisan divides. While Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) research has highlighted the effect of moral values on a …
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The Moral Foundations of Knowledge: Seeking and Avoiding COVID-19 Information
… The current work draws on the intersection of moral foundations theory and modernization theory to investigate this paradoxical relationship between political conservatism and knowledge about COVID-19. Study 1 provided correlational evidence that individualizing foundations (i.e., moral …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… justified under child protection rhetoric and morality-based policymaking, rely on vague legal language and selective enforcement to suppress gender nonconformity while maintaining plausible deniability of discriminatory intent. Despite significant scholarship on LGBTQIA+ rights, policy …
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The Effects of Moral Message Framing on Political Ideology
… be polarizing. However, ideologically congruent moral message framing has been shown to moderate attitudes towards climate change and may provide a method to reduce polarization and moderate extreme attitudes. The current study attempted to broaden previous findings to investigate whether moral …
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An investigation into the political psychology of attitudes towards immigration in the UK: What drives these attitudes, can they be predicted, and can they be changed?
… the study of individual differences (including Moral Foundations Theory, Social Dominance Theory and personality traits) and the literature on framing. In the initial pre-registered survey experiment, over 11,000 British people were exposed to short pro-immigration texts reflecting different …
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Physical and Social Threats Fortify Moral Judgements
Moral judgements are often believed to be firmly grounded in rational thought. However, scholars have discovered that moral considerations are responsive to individual and contextual factors, such as contamination and disease threats. Indeed, the role of disgust and disease threats on amplifying …
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Moral Psychology And Political Campaigns
Theories of moral psychology suggest that American partisans rely on different moral domains to inform their political decision making (Haidt 2012; Lakoff 1996). This project addresses the use of moral framing, language, and traits in American political campaigns. It first examines the language of …