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Behavioral Sciences
Keith J. Yoder, Jean Decety
Summary: Moral conviction has the potential to inspire activism and change, but can also lead to divisiveness and harm. This study found that stronger moral convictions were associated with lower social conformity, especially in individuals with lower metacognitive ability. Moralized content was prioritized in different stages of information processing, with changes in neural responses indicating increased attention and engagement for moralized beliefs.
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Education & Educational Research
Ali Ibrahim, Maha Alhabbash
Summary: This study developed a descriptive model for teacher demoralization, explaining the triggers, development, and reactions of demoralized teachers. The research found that demoralization is mainly triggered by internal and external conditions, developing through different stages and leading to diminished self-esteem. Demoralized teachers react in various ways, from following rules to leaving the profession.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Andrea Scatolon, Maria Paola Paladino
Summary: Individuals may support economic redistribution out of practical considerations and moral beliefs. Three studies demonstrate that attitudes towards reducing economic inequality can be rooted in moral conviction and motivate support for redistributive government policies. The findings show that moral conviction for reducing economic inequality is comparable to highly moralized topics and higher than lowly moralized topics. Moreover, moral conviction positively predicts support for redistributive policies and this effect is mediated by structural causal attributions.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jared B. Celniker, Andrew Gregory, Hyunjin J. Koo, Paul K. Piff, Peter H. Ditto, Azim F. Shariff
Summary: Displays of effort signal moral character and are deemed morally admirable. This moralization of effort influences donation behaviors and cooperative partner choice decision-making.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rabia Kodapanakkal, Mark J. Brandt, Christoph Kogler, Ilja van Beest
Summary: Moral framing and reframing strategies can persuade people with moralized attitudes, but they can also further moralize attitudes and reduce willingness to compromise. Anger and disgust may drive moralization, while perceiving financial costs can drive demoralization.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
J. Dean Elmore, Jerome A. Lewis, Zachary M. Himmelberger, Jefferson A. Sherwood
Summary: This study aimed to develop a series of moral vignettes that are more representative of everyday life. In Study 1, participants read 70 vignettes and determined the moral relevance of the depicted behaviors. In Study 2, the most immoral vignettes from Study 1 were compared to vignettes from the moral psychology literature. The findings suggest that everyday events arouse people's moral concerns and highlight the potential utility of stimuli like everyday moral transgressions in the study of moral psychology.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Kristina B. Simonsen, Bart Bonikowski
Summary: This study demonstrates that exposure to moralized messages leads individuals to place greater moral weight on their existing immigration opinions and become more averse to political leaders and social interaction partners who hold opposing beliefs. This research helps explain the heightened intensity of anti-immigrant politics and suggests a new avenue for comparative research.
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anja Kassecker, Stephan A. Verschoor, Marco F. H. Schmidt
Summary: This study used multiple methods to assess the role of cognitive and socioaffective processes in infants' developing morality. The findings suggest that infants can differentiate between harmful and harmless transgressions based solely on prior verbal interactions, showing greater physiological arousal and empathic concern for moral violations compared to conventional violations.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ava R. Alexander, Samuel P. Putnam
Summary: Research suggests that young children possess a relatively complex understanding of adult authority that varies by social cognitive domain, and children's support for different types of parental commands varies accordingly. Older children show less support for parental commands in the personal domain, as well as for atypical commands in both conventional and moral domains.
JOURNAL OF MORAL EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Communication
Thomas Fenzl, Franzisca Weder, Denise Voci, Stella Lemke
Summary: This paper introduces a theoretical framework for understanding the moralization effects of sustainability communication on individual food choices and behavior. The results of the pilot study suggest that food is less morally loaded than expected and sustainability is not a moral obligation related to specific eating behavior. The study also found that food choices and changes in meat consumption are influenced by various factors.
FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION
(2022)
Article
Ethics
P. A. U. L. WALKER, T. E. R. E. N. C. E. LOVAT
Summary: Consensus, specifically dialogic consensus, possesses a unique form of moral authority in our pluralistic society. Through unforced dialogue and properly founded argumentation, dilemmatic situations can be morally evaluated and action-guiding decisions can be made.
JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Chethana Achar, Angela Y. Lee
Summary: The experience of regulatory fit shapes subsequent moral conduct by intensifying moral predispositions.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mohima Sanyal, William H. B. McAuliffe, Oliver Scott Curry
Summary: This study investigates the role of disgust in moral judgments and finds that induced disgust has a small negative impact on the acceptability of existing biotechnology. However, trait disgust mostly shows a negative relationship with the moral acceptability of biotechnologies. It does not moderate the effect of observing disgusting photos on biotechnology judgments.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emily Kubin, Curtis Puryear, Chelsea Schein, Kurt Gray
Summary: Research shows that political opponents are more willing to respect moral beliefs rather than facts, especially when moral beliefs are supported by personal experiences. Personal experiences related to harm and relevant to the issue are most likely to earn respect from opponents. In moral disagreements, subjective experiences seem truer than objective facts, indicating a better way to bridge moral divides.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
M. G. Jean-Tron, D. Avila-Montiel, Titto C. Hill-de, H. Marquez-Gonzalez, G. Chapa-Koloffon, A. V. Avila-Hernandez, M. A. Nunez-Benitez, O. Munoz-Hernandez, J. Garduno-Espinosa
Summary: This study compared the moral reasoning of pediatric residents and the general population and found that the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the moral reasoning development of pediatric residents.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2023)
