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Robustness of Liberal-Conservative Moral Foundations Questionnaire Differences
All social science research faces questions about the external validity of the results. Much social psychology research is done on students and so the natural question is whether those findings...
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The values of people who are “Spiritual, but not Religious”
Some people in psychology have a theory that everyone wants to study themselves. I don’t really have a religious category that fits. I grew up going occasionally to a protestant church and I...
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J Street vs. The Weekly Standard: Is it possible to be pro-peace and pro-Israel?
A group called J Street has recently sought to question the wisdom of military action by the Israeli government. Their influence is supposed to be a counterbalance to the traditionally hawk-ish Israel...
View ArticleWhat are the basic foundations of morality?
A few years ago, I was fortunate to catch a talk by Jon Haidt at the Gallup Positive Psychology Summit where he gave a wonderful talk about moral foundation theory, which seeks to determine the...
View ArticleSeparating Pro-Peace from Anti-War Attitudes using Moral Psychology Measures
I’m off to SPSP 2010 and will be presenting the below poster at the morality and justice pre-conference. It’s based on a scale I found measuring separate war and peace attitudes (Vander Linden et. al,...
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A moral profile of Tea Party supporters
Over the past several months, the Tea Party movement has emerged as a national force in American politics. Its supporters are often characterized as belonging to one of two distinct groups: either as...
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Tea for Two: The Split Personality of the Tea Party
Prior to November’s midterm elections, I blogged about the moral and psychological predictors of support for the Tea Party movement. Overall, their pattern of responses on the Moral Foundations...
View ArticleFitting Factual Beliefs to Moral Evaluations: How Moral Coherence Explains...
The recent firestorm surrounding Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-Mo.) claims about legitimate or forcible rape and pregnancy are indeed shocking. For those unfamiliar with his remarks, in an August 19, 2012...
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