Discrimination Hurts Real People
Many critics of my thesis about “tribal moral communities” claim either that 1) there is no actual discrimination against conservatives (because their underrepresentation reflects only self-selection)...
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Liberals place more value on being funny than conservatives and libertarians.
I’ve been watching a lot of comedy central lately and have been wondering why there does not appear to be a conservative equivalent, just as there is no popular liberal equivalent to conservative AM...
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The Moral Foundations of ThinkProgress, Alternet, Daily Kos, & the NY Times
Over the past couple years, Jon Haidt has had press articles from various liberal leaning press organizations, including these articles from ThinkProgress, Alternet, Daily Kos, and the New York Times....
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Where to live? Liberal, conservative, & libertarian criteria differ.
In a line of research led by Matt Motyl, at the University of Virginia, we’ve been exploring ideological differences in preferences for where one lives. This project is informed by a few ideas already...
View ArticleNew Research on the Moral Psychology of Libertarians
While some followers of this blog may be familiar with some of the ideas in this paper, the final version of our publication about libertarian morality has just been published in PLOS One. You can...
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How Coherence Defines Conservatism
One of the pitfalls in doing political psychology research is that it is tempting to define an ideology using the perspective of whatever you study. Researchers necessarily (and I’m sure I do this...
View ArticleIn Defense of Akin: Moral Coherence is common.
Recently, some of my collaborators (Brittany Liu and Pete Ditto) published a paper on moral coherence, which is when people fit their factual beliefs to their moral beliefs. It is a phenomenon very...
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Early Voting is a Social Influence Tool, so tell everyone when you vote!
As a political junkie, I’ve been reading the spin on early voting with interest as each side talks about how they are using their ground game to get people to the polls. Some have suggested that early...
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Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin and Paul Krugman need to get out of Maslow’s...
Losing an election is tough and I have immense empathy for those who have a heartfelt vision for their country that was not fulfilled on election day. Most people who care deeply about the election,...
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Liberals and Conservatives (Mostly) Agree About Who is a Hero
Spot the moral hero. Now spot the moral villain. Would someone who doesn’t share your political views give the same answers? Che Guevara, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, and Mother Teresa To get to the...
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