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Conservatives and Liberals Motivated by Different Psychological Factors, New Study Shows
NYU ^ | 11/11/20 | NYU

Posted on 06/01/2023 3:36:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Specifically, the studies by Jost and his colleagues, including Michael Strupp-Levitsky, who conducted the work as an NYU undergraduate and is now a doctoral candidate at Long Island University-Brooklyn, showed that those moral foundations known to be more appealing to liberals than conservatives—specifically, fairness and harm avoidance—are linked to empathic motivation, whereas the moral foundations that are more appealing to conservatives than to liberals —such as ingroup loyalty and deference to authority—are not.

In fact, the “binding foundations” cited by previous studies as evidence of a broad “moral palette” are associated with authoritarianism, social dominance, and economic system justification—matters quite apart from morality. Moreover, they are also associated with psychological motives to reduce uncertainty and threat, consistent with a theory of political ideology as motivated social cognition that Jost and other collaborators proposed in 2003.

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To: DallasBiff

They set up the study to get the results they wanted. If you believe there are rules, they call that authoritarianism. If you want government to break the rules to equalize results, they call that fairness or social justice. And it’s the supposed intentions that matter. You may not make anything better, but you can tell yourself you are fighting for social justice, and they will believe you.


21 posted on 06/01/2023 8:26:48 PM PDT by x
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To: DallasBiff

Total BS IMHO. Conservatives want the Constitution to reign supreme, RINOs and libs want feelings to be the standard


22 posted on 06/01/2023 8:42:10 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: DallasBiff

I am surprised that more FREEPERS don’t know about the moral foundations theory by John Haidt.

Here is his Ted Talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_liberals_and_conservatives

He has done his exremely exentsive worldwide research and found that all societies are divided by what we call conservatives and liberals and that conservatives have more moral foundations than liberals who only care about the immediate avoidance of pain. Pretty good from an Ivy Liberal academic.


23 posted on 06/01/2023 9:56:15 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: StolarStorm

Yes modern liberalism has nothing to do with classic liberalism


24 posted on 06/02/2023 4:18:20 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: StolarStorm

bump to the top


25 posted on 06/02/2023 4:21:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (American companies: YOUR Ad Agency needs to look like America NOT like a San Francisco Gay bathhouse)
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To: DallasBiff

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26 posted on 06/02/2023 6:40:05 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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