http://www.polipsych.com Political, Moral, and Positive Psychology Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:40:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2008/03/25/democracy-promotion-vs-dignity-promotion/ 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2008/03/15/what-do-moral-psychology-scales-say-about-supporters-of-obama-and-clinton/ 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2008/02/20/regression-analyses-of-clintonobamaclinton-loyalty-obama-fairness/ 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2008/02/13/20/ 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2008/02/13/moral-foundation-facts-about-barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-supporters/ 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2007/11/27/liberals-vs-conservatives-on-the-schwartz-values-scale/ Last summer, I began work on a project which is only now launching, VoteHelp.org. The idea is that people need a simple interface where they can input their opinions on issues and compare their positions to those of politicians. In this case, we decided to create the site ... http://www.polipsych.com/2007/10/22/compare-your-political-positions-to-candidate-positions-votehelporg/ I am just getting back from the Gallup Positive Psychology conference where we talk a lot about measuring happiness and well being rather than GDP to inform policy. In case anyone wonders what some of my posts on happiness have to do with public policy, here is a tidbit ... http://www.polipsych.com/2007/10/07/the-serial-comma-%c2%bb-gross-national-happiness/ 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2007/09/30/cognitive-moral-relativism-vs-moral-absolutism-in-liberals-and-conservatives/ 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 ... http://www.polipsych.com/2007/09/27/talking-morality-with-conservative-blog-writers-of-mayor-sam-libertas-the-big-picture-and-bridget-johnson/