The role of cognitive resources in determining our moral intuitions: Are we all liberals at heart?☆

By J. Wright, G. Baril. 2011

95 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Gordon Pennycook
2. Adam Waytz
3. Liane L. Young
4. Kurt Gray
5. Mehmet Harma
6. J. Allan Cheyne
7. S. Cesur
8. Nathaniel Barr

In Social Psychology

1. Adam Waytz
2. Gordon Pennycook
3. Liane L. Young
4. Kurt Gray
5. Matthew B. Kugler
6. Sharareh Noorbaloochi
7. Mehmet Harma
8. J. Allan Cheyne

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Gordon Pennycook
2. Matthew B. Kugler
3. Sharareh Noorbaloochi
4. David G. Rand
5. Adam Waytz
6. Liane L. Young
7. John T. Jost
8. Nathaniel Barr

Citations in the corpus

• The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values (2014, result): “This hypothesis is consistent with research indicating that cognitive load decreases valuations of binding values among conservatives, but has no effect on individualising values (Wright & Baril, 2011).”
• Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “More evidence for the dominance of harm-related concerns comes from Wright and Baril (in press) , who demonstrate that conservatives fundamentally possess a harm-based morality: Under cognitive load, conservatives deemphasize the domains of authority, ingroup, and purity, suggesting that mental eff”
• Validation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire in Turkey and its relation to cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism (2016, background): “…showing how experimental manipulations influence moral foundations (e.g., Napier & Luguri, 2013; Van Berkel, Crandall, Eidelman & Blanchar, 2015; Wright & Baril, 2011), we tried to manipulate the cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism of Turkish participants to better understand the…”
• Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Explain Liberal-Conservative Differences in “Moral” Intuitions? (2014, background): “…moral intuitions share key psychological antecedents, such as perceptions of a dangerous world—consistent (rather than inconsistent, as Haidt & Graham, 2007, claimed) with Jost et al.’s (2003) analysis of political conservatism as motivated social cognition (see also Wright & Baril, 2011).”