Moral foundations and political attitudes: The moderating role of political sophistication

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Milesi
Keyword(s):  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals The Moral Foundations of Environmentalism: Care- and Fairness-Based Morality Interact With Political Liberalism to Predict Pro-Environmental Actions

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taciano L. Milfont ◽  
Caitlin L. Davies ◽  
Marc S. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Green Party ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Electricity Conservation ◽  
Moderating Role

There is robust evidence showing associations between political ideology and environmentalism such that self-identified political liberals tend to hold greater pro-environmental positions than conservatives. Drawing from research on moral foundations, we report two studies examining the extent to which political ideology and individualising foundations of care- and fairness-based morality interact to predict environmentalism. Results support the predicted moderating role of individualising foundations, with no moderating effects for the binding foundations of loyalty-, authority- and sanctity-based morality. Liberal ideology was a stronger predictor of electricity conservation with increasingly high levels of individualising morals (Study 1, N = 144), while conservative ideology was a stronger predictor of positive feelings towards the Green Party with increasingly high levels of individualising morals (Study 2, N = 233). The results indicate that individualising morals might intensify environmentalism for those who already lean towards a pro-environmental stand but also for those who lean away from a pro-environmental stand. The findings confirm the important role of both care- and fairness-based morality in addressing environmental problems.

scholarly journals The effects of news frames and political speech sources on political attitudes: The moderating role of values

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moniza Waheed ◽  
Andreas Schuck ◽  
Peter Neijens ◽  
Claes de Vreese
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractThis study investigated the extent to which values play a role in affecting citizens’ political attitudes when exposed to different media news frames and political speech sources. To test this, we designed a survey experiment which used news coverage of a political speech concerning the cultural practices of immigrants (

scholarly journals Does an Abstract Mind-Set Increase the Internal Consistency of Moral Attitudes and Strengthen Individualizing Foundations?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinan Alper ◽  
Onurcan Yilmaz
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Construal Level Theory ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Moral Attitudes ◽  
Moral Convictions

Recent research suggests that experimentally inducing an abstract (vs. a concrete) mind-set enhances political sophistication by increasing the consistency in political attitudes; it also enhances individualizing moral foundations and decreases binding moral foundations. However, the evidence is mixed regarding whether abstract mind-set increases or decreases the strength of moral convictions in general. In this context, the aim of this study was 2-fold. In two preregistered studies on U.S. American and Turkish samples (aggregate N = 694), we tested (1) whether abstract mind-set increases the consistency in moral convictions, similar to the case of political attitudes, and (2) whether inducing an abstract mind-set increases individualizing and decreases binding foundations. The results did not provide support for any of the hypotheses and the past findings were not reproduced. Potential implications of these findings for construal level theory literature are discussed.

scholarly journals Ideologically consistent, but for whom? An empirical assessment of the populism-elitism-pluralism set of attitudes and the moderating role of political sophistication

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110177
Author(s):  
Bram Spruyt ◽  
Matthijs Rooduijn ◽  
Andrej Zaslove
Keyword(s):  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Consistent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Scholars who study populism from an ‘ideational approach’ consider populism as a set of ideas based on a moralised anti-establishment thinking and a strong people-centrist view of politics. From this perspective, at a theoretical level, populist attitudes have the following two main contrasts: pluralism and elitism. In this article, we investigate the ideological consistency of the populism-pluralism-elitism set of attitudes among voters. Analysing data from Flanders (N = 1444), we make three main contributions. First, we show that there indeed exists an internally consistent relationship between populism, elitism, and pluralism among voters. Second, we demonstrate that this consistency only holds for the most politically sophisticated citizens. And third, we show that the relationship between populist and elitist attitudes is much more nuanced than often assumed. We show that it is possible to empirically distinguish between ‘expertise elitism’ and ‘anti-populist elitism’, two forms of elitism which relate differently to populist attitudes.

How Cross-Cutting News Exposure Relates to Candidate Issue Stance Knowledge, Political Polarization, and Participation: The Moderating Role of Political Sophistication

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 626-648
Author(s):  
Yonghwan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The One ◽  
Issue Knowledge ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractThis article seeks to improve our understanding of the role of cross-cutting news exposure in a democratic process—that is, whether and how exposure to counter-attitudinal news information is associated with citizens’ political issue knowledge, attitudinal polarization, and engagement in political activities. The results provide 2 contrasting roles of exposure to dissonant media outlets. On the one hand, results offer some evidence that dissonant media use contributes to gaining issue knowledge and inspiring citizen participation. On the other hand, some findings suggest that it reinforces, rather than attenuates, citizens’ attitudinal polarization. Thus, the findings from this study indicate mixed effects of exposure to counter-attitudinal news information.

The Moderating Role of Alienation on the Relation between Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Person-Organization Fit

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 710-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adelheid A. M. Nicol ◽  
Kevin Rounding
Keyword(s):  
Social Dominance ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Person Organization Fit ◽  
Moderating Role

Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation have been found to be related with Person-Organization fit. This study examined whether alienation also plays a role in the relation between Person-Organization fit and these two socio-political attitudes. Measures of Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, alienation, and Person-Organization fit were given to a sample of Officer Cadets ( N = 99; M age = 22.8 yr., SD = 5.4). The findings suggest that when individuals felt alienated, Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism were not related to Person-Organization fit. When alienation was low, Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism interacted to predict Person-Organization fit. Therefore, feelings of alienation can influence the perception of fit within an organization and the relation between perception of fit with Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism.

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