Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 55-130

  Graham, Jesse ^a   Haidt, Jonathan ^b   Koleva, Sena ^a   Motyl, Matt ^c   Iyer, Ravi ^a   Wojcik, Sean P ^d   Ditto, Peter H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural learning; Intuition; Method theory coevolution; Morality; Nativism; Pluralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876047440     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407236-7.00002-4     Document Type: Chapter

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