iv List of Tables and Figures v What is Morality? 2 Emotion, Moral Motives, and Political Triggers 6 Approach and Avoidance Moral Motives 8 Morality and Political Ideology 11 Framing Political Issues 13 Framing and Moral Motives 15 Method 17 Participants 17 Procedure, Design, Stimuli, and Measures 17 Results 23 Data Preparation 23 Data Analysis 23 Summary 26 Discussion 29 Limitations and Future...

Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of con...

Conservative political beliefs have been linked to heightened stress reactivity and protective cognitive biases. Using a facial discrimination task designed to measure perceptions of threat (vs. non threat) and dominance (vs. submissiveness), I show that Republicans demonstrate a greater tendency to interpret ambiguous facial stimuli as expressing more threatening and more dominant emotions tha...

this research intents to /explain the theory and practice of fascism in . italy an germany, and so it tries to recognise the ideology of classical fascism. studing the historical grounds of emerging of fascism, it explains the raising ideology of fascism in nature, resouce and contents of thought, and by looking to foundations of classical fascism's ideology, it studies natural history of ...

The increase in divorce rates over the past decades challenges traditional image of two-parent family, as new family forms are increasingly more common. Yet, view has remained central to political socialization research. Therefore, we propose and empirically test a theoretical framework regarding consequences parental separation for processes socialization. While impact been studied extensively...

Ideology is a potent motivational force; human beings are capable of committing atrocities (as well as acts of generosity and courage) and sacrificing even their own lives for the sake of abstract belief systems. In this article, we summarize the major tenets of a model of political ideology as motivated social cognition (Jost et al. in Psychol Bull 129:339–375, 2003a, Psychol Bull 129:389–393,...

Recent surveys have shown that an increasing portion of the US public believes the two major US parties inadequately represent the US public opinion, and think additional parties are needed [1]. However, there are high barriers for third parties in political elections. In this paper, we aim to address two questions: “How well do the two major US parties represent the public’s ideology?” and “Do...

Moral judgment cannot be reduced to cultural ideology, or vice versa. But when each construct is measured separately, then combined, the product predicts powerfully to moral thinking. In Study 1, 2 churches (N = 96) were selected for their differences on religious ideology, political identity, and moral judgment. By combining these 3 variables, a multiple correlation of .79 predicted to members...