Deconstructing the association between psychopathy and political orientation: Is it attributable to moral intuitions or moral competency?

Religiosity and Group-Binding Moral Concerns

Archive for the Psychology of Religion ◽

10.1163/15736121-12341343 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 263-282 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Jordan P. LaBouff ◽

Matthew Humphreys ◽

Megan Johnson Shen

Keyword(s):

Political Orientation ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Moral Foundations ◽

Moral Intuitions ◽

Moral Communities ◽

Political Orientations

Research by Graham and Haidt (2010) suggests that beliefs, rituals, and other social aspects of religion establish moral communities. As such, they suggest religion is most strongly associated with the group-focused “binding” moral foundations of ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity. Two studies tested this hypothesis, investigating the role of political orientation in these relationships. These studies supported our hypothesis that general religiosity is positively associated with each of the group-focused moral foundations, even when controlling for the role of political orientation. Further, we find religious and political orientations interact such that low-religious political liberals are least likely to endorse group-focused moral intuitions. Results are discussed in a moral foundations framework and consider the role of religiosity's association with political orientation and group-focused moral foundations.

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Folk-economic beliefs as moral intuitions

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18000456 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Author(s):

Neil Malhotra

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Moral Intuitions ◽

Economic Beliefs ◽

Evolutionary Explanations

AbstractAlthough Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) cataloguing of and evolutionary explanations for folk-economic beliefs is important and valuable, the authors fail to connect their theories to existing explanations for why people do not think like economists. For instance, people often have moral intuitions akin to principles of fairness and justice that conflict with utilitarian approaches to resource allocation.

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Psychology in Outerspace

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000023 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 220-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Viren Swami ◽

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic ◽

Manal Shafi

Keyword(s):

Individual Difference ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Political Orientation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Social Conformity ◽

Extraterrestrial Life ◽

Paranormal Beliefs ◽

Future Work

Previous work has shown that is important to consider the disjunction between paranormal and nonparanormal beliefs about extraterrestrial life. The current study examined the association between both such beliefs and individual difference and demographic variables. A total of 555 British participants completed the Extraterrestrial Beliefs Scale, as well as measures of their Big Five personality scores, social conformity, sensation seeking, and demographics. Results showed no sex differences in ratings of paranormal and nonparanormal extraterrestrial beliefs, but participants rated nonparanormal beliefs more positively than paranormal beliefs. Results of structural equation modeling showed that individual difference factors (specifically, Openness, Conscientiousness, and social conformity) explained 21% of the variance in extraterrestrial beliefs, whereas demographic factors (specifically, education level, political orientation, and religiosity) explained 16% of the variance. Limitations and directions for future work are considered.

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