The Moral Foundations of Human Rights Attitudes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6338247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominic Stolerman (0000-0002-2086-1559, University College London), David Lagnado (University College London), David A Lagnado (0000-0002-6845-8830, University College London) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 439-459 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/pops.12539 |
| OpenAlex | W2899945873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 43 |
Human rights are claimed to be innate and based on moral principles. Human rights attitudes have been shown to be related to political ideology, but there have been few studies investigating their relationship with morality. Using moral foundations theory, we examine whether morals can predict human rights attitudes across two studies. The first study used questionnaires to show that human rights are based exclusively on individualizing moral foundations; however, increases in individualizing and decreases in binding foundations predict increases in human rights endorsement. Moral foundations also mediated the relationship between political identification and human rights. Both individualizing and binding foundations performed a role in explaining the lower endorsement of human rights by conservatives as compared to liberals. The second study used textual analysis of newspaper articles to show that human‐rights‐related articles contained more moral language than other articles, in particular for the individualizing foundations. Conservative newspapers had a greater use of binding foundations in human rights articles than liberal newspapers
Environmental ethics · Human rights · Ideology · Morality · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |