What Dilemma? Moral Evaluation Shapes Factual Belief

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The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction (2014, background): “Unlike moral mandates, moral judgments tend to be single-shot reactions to a given behavior, actor, or hypothetical that are easily influenced by even small changes in context cues (e.g., Ditto, Pizarro, & Tannenbaum, 2009; Liu & Ditto, 2012).”
Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection (2013, background): “Some psychologists maintain, too, that these effects are intensified by dogmatism, aversion to complexity, and like traits that correlate with political conservativism and that make politically conservative individuals distinctively resistant to revising their beliefs based on empirical evidence.”
Do Social Norms Influence Causal Inferences? (2014, background): “This possibility is raised by Liu and Ditto (2013) who say: “[t]he more participants believed that the action was immoral even if it had beneficial consequences, the less they believed it would actually produce those consequences (…)” (p. 318).”