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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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Liberals and Conservatives Differ in Moral Foundations: How They Think Adultery?

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2011, v.30 no.3, pp.727-741


& (2011). Liberals and Conservatives Differ in Moral Foundations: How They Think Adultery?. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 30(3), 727-741.
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This research examines which moral foundations liberals and conservatives use when they make moral judgments of social issues. Moral foundations theory (Haidt & Joseph, 2004) suggests three moral foundations, authority/respect, ingroup/loyalty, purity/sanctity in addition to harm/care and fairness/ reciprocity which have been focused in western society. To test moral foundation theory based especially on the three additional moral domains, we elicited and analyzed liberals' and conservatives' schemata for adultery. In Study 1, we found 12 moral elements for adultery through group and individual interviews. In Study 2, we analyzed liberals' and conservatives' moral schema networks for adultery. Social network analysis showed that conservatives' moral network was larger and denser than liberals'. In addition, liberals judged adultery on the basis of the ethics of autonomy (freedom) and thought that consequential values of adultery (family, children, law) were highly relevant with adultery. By contrast, conservatives used more purity-related factors (e.g., sin, obscene) than liberals and thought that deontological values (disloyal, betray) were highly relevant with adultery. These findings suggest moral foundations theory can be also valid in Korean society.

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liberals and conservatives, moral foundations theory, adultery, social network analysis, 진보와 보수, 도덕적 기반이론, 간통죄, 사회연결망분석

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