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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"moral foundations"”.
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The Moral Foundations of Fair Labelling
… the offender’s entitlements (as per critical morality) and the legal categories and duties imposed on them when allocating blame in punishment. I argue that fair labelling is concerned with this specific kind of mismatch when the criminal law allocates blame in offence description and …
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Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship
… threatened by at least two conceptual problems: moral-legal equivocation and paternalism. Legal-moral equivocation refers to the problem of assuming that the normative demands of a legal relationship are also morally normative. The cogent use of the fiduciary relationship in bioethical analysis …
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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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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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Assessing the Independent Role of Moral Foundations In Attitudes Toward Various Justifications For Abortion
… reasons for having an abortion, and completed a moral reasoning measure, an assessment of religiosity and political affiliation, and a demographics form. At the bivariate level, results revealed that stronger deontological moral values, religiosity, and conservatism were associated with less …
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The effect of psychological factors on morality. the role of culture and moral foundations.
… was to explore the cultural differences in moral judgment, moral behaviour, moral identity, and cultural values between Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom. Furthermore, I was interested in the psychological factors affecting morality in those two cultures. The first study aimed to achieve 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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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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Identity, Intergroup Relationships, and Environmental Conflict
… 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 exacerbate …
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Putting morality to work: an investigation of moral reframing in the context of safe sex education and COVID-19 boosters
This dissertation examined whether moral reframing could increase support for COVID-19 boosters and safe sex education among conservative Christians, as well as the type of cognitive elaboration such messages elicit. Using a hybrid survey of self-identified Christian conservatives, the findings …
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Sexist Stereotypes and Prejudice in the Latin American Context, and Their Relation to Sexual Violence
… violence and factors such as societal beliefs, morality, political orientation, among many others. Only through such insights it is possible to start grasping the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of violence against women, all indispensable to be able to work against it. However, in order to …
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A system for bridging the ideological divide by establishing a moral framework for news consumption
… for bridging the ideological divide by surfacing moral framing in news. Pano provides a way to educate consumers of online news to think in a moral framework of shared human values, challenging their understandings of views held by those different from them through collaborative highlighting and …
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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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Food waste reduction strategies for sustainable food security in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… Religiosity is an important driver of moral intuitions and as such marketers would do well to consider the diverse effects of moral foundations on specialty food consumption. Due to the current environmental crisis, sustainable consumption behaviour and its drivers has gained …
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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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Politics and pandemics: an investigation of the potential covariates in the relationship between conservative political ideology and reduced facemask wearing
… loyalty to ingroup and obedience to authority moral foundations, trust in science, belief in conspiracy theories, and psychological reactance. Using an online survey system, 138 U.S. adults completed several measures of political identity, mask wearing, and the hypothesized covariates. A simple …
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Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism
… adopts as its starting point the beliefs that moral truths can be known and that political philosophy is a branch of ethics. The author identifies three variants of libertarianism on the basis of their different treatments of the right to private property, which all three consider to be the …
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The Morality of Familial Obligation
The task of this dissertation is to examine the morality of familial obligations and to draw conclusions about how they ought to be approached. The work presents a general description of the obligations commonly associated with family membership and a study of possible moral foundations. It also …
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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 Relationship Between Ideology and Disgust Sensitivity
… of danger. This emotion also plays a role in moral judgment: individuals label moral wrongdoings as disgusting which elicits a specific facial expression. For this reason, disgust has recently been found to be a plausible emotion involved in political decision-making. Studies indicate that …
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