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. [...]
Cognitive moral relativism vs. moral absolutism in liberals and conservatives
One of the main ideas behind the moral foundation theory is that greater understanding of the differences between liberals and conservatives will lead to less demonization of the other side. This is a goal that is shared by liberals and conservatives alike. However, most of the people who work on this theory are [...]
talking morality with conservative blog writers of mayor sam, libertas, the big picture, and bridget johnson
So I’m just starting this blog and who knows where it will go, but so far so good and to continue the enjoyment of the process, I went to a ‘bloggers night out’ organized by Vik Rubenfeld who runs The Big Picture. Also in attendance were Bridget Johnson, a blogger from Libertas, and a [...]
Evidence that conservatives don’t like their 2008 top 6 presidential candidates
So I was in my office today when my advisor came in to chat and I mentioned that I started a blog, which got us talking about YourMorals.org. I was showing him some of the political graphs when he noticed an interesting thing about our political candidates survey (built by Sena Koleva, btw). [...]
Moral Foundations: The New York Times vs. Andrew Sullivan
Over the past year, I’ve gotten involved in research on moral psychology and it’s political implications, specifically working with a theory put forth by Jonathan Haidt and Jesse Graham at the University of Virginia called the moral foundations theory. You can read more about it here.
The main idea is that there are a finite [...]