Comments on: World vs. Country focus for Obama vs. McCain supporters http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/ Exploring Political Attitudes Through Moral Psychology Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:11:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ravi http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Ravi Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:30:36 +0000 http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/#comment-78 The green represents my results on the scale as the site allows users to compare their results (in green) to the average results for liberals and conservatives. The green represents my results on the scale as the site allows users to compare their results (in green) to the average results for liberals and conservatives.

]]> By: Robert Sommers http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Robert Sommers Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:08:58 +0000 http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/#comment-71 Ravi - what are we calling the green bar group in the uppermost graph? Is this an undecided group or a different entity? Robert Ravi – what are we calling the green bar group in the uppermost graph? Is this an undecided group or a different entity?

Robert

]]> By: Sam McFarland http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Sam McFarland Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:38:57 +0000 http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/#comment-70 Ravi, what does the green line in the first graph represent? Jon, I agree strongly with your comment. I have admired your work on moral intuitions, but think I found a different kind. I asked students to complete my "Identification with all humanity scale," then asked them to do it a second time as they thought "the most mature and most moral person" they could imagine would complete it. Their IWAHS scores shot way up. Somehow, they intuited that "moral and mature" individuals would identify more with all humanity than they did, themselves. I would like to tease out why. Sam McFarland (sam.mcfarland@wku.edu) Ravi, what does the green line in the first graph represent? Jon, I agree strongly with your comment. I have admired your work on moral intuitions, but think I found a different kind. I asked students to complete my “Identification with all humanity scale,” then asked them to do it a second time as they thought “the most mature and most moral person” they could imagine would complete it. Their IWAHS scores shot way up. Somehow, they intuited that “moral and mature” individuals would identify more with all humanity than they did, themselves. I would like to tease out why.
Sam McFarland (sam.mcfarland@wku.edu)

]]> By: Jon Haidt http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Jon Haidt Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:23:46 +0000 http://www.polipsych.com/2008/09/18/world-vs-country-focus-for-obama-vs-mccain-supporters/#comment-62 Ravi, i'd suggest that the reason for the tradeoff is that conservatives believe in lower level groupings and mid-level institutions, whereas liberals tend to be universalists -- they positively dislike subgroupings. They think more abstractly, and want a clean overarching system to address problems. I don't think one can be a universalist and also root passionately for the home team. Jon Haidt Ravi,
i’d suggest that the reason for the tradeoff is that conservatives believe in lower level groupings and mid-level institutions, whereas liberals tend to be universalists — they positively dislike subgroupings. They think more abstractly, and want a clean overarching system to address problems. I don’t think one can be a universalist and also root passionately for the home team.
Jon Haidt

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