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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 754-759Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612473783
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morality; mind-set; moral foundations; construal level
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Moral foundations theory contends that people's morality goes beyond concerns about justice and welfare, and asserts that humans have five innate foundations of morality: harm and fairness (individualizing foundations) and in-group loyalty, deference to authority, and purity (binding foundations). The current research investigates whether people's moral judgments are consistently informed by these five values, or whether individualizing and binding foundations might be differentially endorsed depending on individuals' mind-sets. Results from our study demonstrated that when participants were experimentally manipulated to think abstractly (vs. concretely), which presumably makes their higher level core values salient, they increased in their valuations of the individualizing foundations and decreased in their valuations of the binding foundations. This effect was not moderated by political ideology. Implications and areas for future directions are discussed.
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