Feeling positive towards others makes you happier….unless you’re a Libertarian
Some of the group that run yourmorals.org are considering writing a paper focusing on Libertarians and so I’ve been looking at the data for triends. One consistent pattern we have found is that Libertarians (unsuprisingly) are more self rather than other oriented. They aren’t just extreme conservatives, but are qualitatively different. They seem to moralize [...]
Three polls which point to differing underlying fairness principles driven by differing goals
I recently saw 3 posts on fivethirtyeight.com which may seem unrelated to many, but to my admittedly biased perception, which seeks supporting evidence for my thesis that the differing goals of harm reduction vs. productivity increase, underlie much of observed political divisions. These were three interesting and convergent findings. This thesis was first put forth [...]
World vs. Country focus for Obama vs. McCain supporters
These results aren’t really surprising, but Obama and McCain supporters have different ideas about who they identify with, based on Sam McFarland’s Identification with All Humanity Scale.
Specifically, those who plan to vote for McCain identify most with their country while those who plan to vote for Obama identify most with the world as a whole.
More [...]
VoteHelp updated to be Obama vs. McCain candidate calculator
Are you an aggrieved Clinton supporter considering voting for McCain? I have to confess that I had thoughts of voting for McCain over Clinton if she had won….but I hope I would have eventually come around upon comparing their issue positions on things that matter.
I just revamped votehelp to compare the 2 leading candidates for [...]
Democracy Promotion vs. Dignity Promotion
I have to confess my bias that I have always been skeptical of the merits of democracy promotion, especially via military means. So when I red this essay about Obama’s proposed foreign policy focus on dignity promotion over democracy promotion, I got excited….Psychologists have routinely shown how people get trapped in cycles of violence [...]
What do moral psychology scales say about supporters of Obama and Clinton?
Draft by Ravi Iyer, Sena Koleva, Jesse Graham, and Peter Ditto
The 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary has featured 2 candidates, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton, with very similar political positions who nevertheless have garnered enthusiastic support [...]
regression analyses…Clinton = Loyalty & Obama = Fairness
Jon Haidt, the most public advocate of Moral Foundation Theory wondered….
very interesting. I wonder if regression analysis would give cleaner results here. It does seem that clinton supporters always show the more liberal profile. What would happen if you compute a difference score between liking for clinton and liking for obama, and then [...]
more on Obama vs. Clinton and the Moral Foundations of their supporters
I shared this post with my colleagues and was asked if the result (Hillary supporters are “loyal” or structure oriented democrats who score higher on authority/ingroup/purity) would hold for just democrats or just people who are very interested in the election. It turns out that the pattern does indeed hold when we just include [...]
moral foundation facts about barack obama and hillary clinton supporters
I recently attended SPSP, the main conference for personality and social psychologists, and met with the people who I work with on yourmorals.org. Among the things we discussed at the meeting was the idea of reporting results that touch on current events in a more timely fashion, rather than focusing solely on academic publications. [...]
Liberals vs. Conservatives on the Schwartz Values Scale
I had to do a presentation relating some of my current work on yourmorals.org to some of the history of moral psychology and in doing so, I created this graph. It doesn’t include all the respondents on yourmorals.org as we changed our politics measure at one point and this graph only represents our newest subjects. [...]
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When should we believe social science findings? - April 25, 2012
Empathizing vs. Systemizing – A Book Review of Tattoos On The Heart - April 5, 2012
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Five ways that technology will democratize social science - February 20, 2012
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Big 5 Personality Traits of would-be Owners vs. Renters - January 25, 2012
Why doesn’t Ron Paul use the word ‘America’ much? - January 7, 2012
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Should Protect Fair Negotiations (not the poor) - December 11, 2011
The Experiential Economy - November 2, 2011
The Moral Foundations of ThinkProgress, Alternet, Daily Kos, & the NY Times - October 15, 2011
Liberals vs. Conservatives:innocent until proven guilty? - September 11, 2011
Does social psychology try too hard to be perceived as a “science”? - August 31, 2011
Equity trumps Equality in arguments about taxation - July 31, 2011
Hypermoral Debt Ceiling Quotes - July 17, 2011
Libya as a moral war (except for libertarians) - July 10, 2011
Oregon’s Medicaid Experiment vs. Motivated Reasoning - June 18, 2011
Relative vs. Absolute Good Choices for Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians - May 23, 2011
Personality profiles of readers vs. non-readers and saving your local bookstore. - May 9, 2011
When Ingroup Love does not equal Outgroup Hate - May 2, 2011
Osama Bin Laden’s Death is a chance to escape Zero-Sum thinking - April 23, 2011
Liberals place more value on being funny than conservatives and libertarians. - April 21, 2011
Jon Kyl’s Moral Confabulation is something we all do. - March 30, 2011
Why should the US lead in Libya? Liberal-Conservative Value Differences. - March 24, 2011
Perceptions of Scarcity & Responsibility inform Budget Negotiations - February 27, 2011
Psychological Correlates of Feelings Toward Labor Unions among Liberals - February 22, 2011
Reagan was a Union Member – Visiting his Library as an exercise in Civil Politics - February 15, 2011
Psychology is generally Continuous, not Categorical - February 11, 2011
Are liberals more neurotic than conservatives? - February 10, 2011
Can liberal academics study conservative ideology? - January 17, 2011
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- What Does it Mean to be Civil? May 8, 2012 Hal
- WNPR Connecticut Hosts a Discussion of Civil Politics April 27, 2012 Ravi Iyer
- The No Labels 12-Point Plan: CivilPolitics Analysis March 22, 2012 Jonathan Haidt
- My data-driven conversion to (relative) political moderation March 15, 2012 Jarret Crawford
- Today is Town Meeting Day in Vermont (and what that has to do with civil politics) March 6, 2012 Liz Joyner