Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations Theory

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1559-1573

  Day, Martin V ^a   Fiske, Susan T ^a   Downing, Emily L ^b   Trail, Thomas E ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; ideology; moral foundations; morality; politics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84911031005     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214551152     Document Type: Article

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