Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations.

By Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt, Brian A. Nosek. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online (2019, background): “For instance, a large body of work suggests that American liberals and conservatives base their sense of morality on different values (Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009; see also Kugler, Jost, & Noorbaloochi, 2014).”
How Ideological Migration Geographically Segregates Groups (2014, positive): “Numerous other scholars demonstrate a considerable correlation between moral and political identities (e.g., Abramowitz, 2012; Graham et al., 2009; Haidt & Graham, 2007; Koleva et al., 2012).”
Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Process Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work (2015, background): “There is less consensus about the ethicality of behaviors that fall into these domains (Graham et al., 2009), in part because they require prioritizing conflicting values: being loyal often inherently contradicts what it would mean to be fair (for an example of how these values conflict, see…”
Blind loyalty? When group loyalty makes us see evil or engage in it (2016, methodology): “, Melnyk, Van Osselaer, & Bijmolt, 2009), or political beliefs (Graham et al., 2009; Haidt & Graham, 2007).”
Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences (2013, methodology): “Moreover, we find that it is social conservatism which is most aligned with the conclusions Graham et al. (2009) reach about conservatives in general: only social conservatives place relatively equal weight on all five foundations, whereas consistent conservatives place most weight on…”
Regional variation in pathogen prevalence predicts endorsement of group-focused moral concerns (2012, background): “Previous research has shown that endorsement of the binding foundations covaries with political orientation (Graham et al., 2009; Van Leeuwen & Park, 2009).”
Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries (2021, neutral): “Participants completed the Moral Purity subscale of the moral judgments section of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (Graham et al., 2009; Rutjens, Sutton, & van der Lee, 2018; Rutjens & van der Lee, 2020), which consists of three items (e.g., “I would call some acts wrong on the grounds that they”
Mapping the Connections between Politics and Morality: The Multiple Sociopolitical Orientations Involved in Moral Intuition (2013, methodology): “More importantly, even within Western societies, individuals with different political orientations vary in the relative emphasis they place on the individualizing and binding foundations (Graham et al., 2009; Haidt & Graham, 2007).”
Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. (2011, neutral): “The moral foundations theory (MFT) of Haidt and colleagues (Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009; Haidt & Graham, 2007; Haidt & Joseph, 2004, 2008) represents an extension of the three moral codes, positing that there are five innately prepared foundations to our moral psychology.”
The psychology of whistleblowing (2015, background): “Relying on moral foundations theory [13,14], which identifies five basic moral values — harm, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity — that people take into account when deciding whether a behavior is right or wrong, we proposed that fairness and loyalty are brought into direct conflict by situati”
The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict (2012, background): “In all, participants 5 answered 56 questions per questionnaire, 34 of which were repeated in both 6 questionnaires: 9 dependent measures, 10 items from the MFQ, 4 items from the SDO 7 scale, and 11 questions about other groups (e.g. Arabs, African Americans).”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, result): “This perspective is consistent with moral foundations theory, which suggests that individuals morally judge certain acts because those acts elicit disgust (Graham et al., 2009; Haidt, 2012).”