An interesting critical discussion of Jonathan Haidt’s apprach to morality from a social psychology and political science point of view: “Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Explain Liberal-Conservative Differences in \u2018\u2018Moral\u2019\u2019 Intuitions?” by Matthew Kugler, John T. Jost, and Sharareh Noorbaloochi (in Social Justice Research. 27.4 (2014): 413-431).<\/p>\n
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Moral foundations theorists propose that the moral domain should include not only \u2018\u2018liberal\u2019\u2019 ethics of justice and care but also ostensibly \u2018\u2018conservative\u2019\u2019 concerns about the virtues of ingroup loyalty, obedience to authority, and enforcement of purity standards. This proposal clashes with decades of research in political psychology connecting the latter set of characteristics to \u2018\u2018the authoritarian personality.\u2019\u2019 We demonstrate that liberal-conservative differences in moral intuitions are statistically mediated by authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, so that conservatives\u2019 greater valuation of ingroup, authority, and purity concerns is attributable to higher levels of authoritarianism, whereas liberals\u2019 greater valuation of fairness and harm avoidance is attributable to lower levels of social dominance. We also find that ingroup, authority, and purity concerns are positively associated with intergroup hostility and support for discrimination, whereas concerns about fairness and harm avoidance are negatively associated with these variables. These findings might lead some to question the wisdom and appropriateness of efforts to \u2018\u2018broaden\u2019\u2019 scientific conceptions of morality in such a way that preferences based on authoritarianism and social dominance are treated as moral\u2014rather than amoral or even immoral\u2014and suggest that the explicit goal of incorporating conservative ideology into the study of moral psychology (in order to increase ideological diversity) may lead researchers astray.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An interesting critical discussion of Jonathan Haidt’s apprach to morality from a social psychology and political science point of view: “Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Explain Liberal-Conservative Differences in \u2018\u2018Moral\u2019\u2019 Intuitions?” by Matthew Kugler, John T. Jost, and Sharareh Noorbaloochi (in Social Justice Research. 27.4 (2014): 413-431). Abstract: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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