Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 184-194

  Koleva, Spassena P ^a   Graham, Jesse ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^a   Ditto, Peter H ^b   Haidt, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic adaptations; Ideology; Moral intuitions; Moral values; Political psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858007719     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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