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Moral Psychology Drives Environmental Concern

The story so far ...

1. ‘Moral convictions and the emotions they evoke shape political attitudes’

2. There are at least two fundamental domains of human morality, including harm and purity.

3. ‘liberals and conservatives possess different moral profiles’

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‘we hypothesized that liberals express greater levels of environmental concern than do conservatives in part because liberals are more likely to view environmental issues in moral terms’

(Feinberg & Willer, 2013, p. 2)

Feinberg & Willer, 2013 p. 2

Feinberg & Willer, 2013 figure 1

Fig. 1. Results from Study 1a: mean morality rating as a function of political ideology (liberal = 1 SD below the mean; conservative = 1 SD above the mean) and experimental condition. Error bars represent ±1 SEM.
‘The one difference was whether or not, after eating his lunch, the target chose to recycle his plastic water bottle (recycle condition) or throw it away as garbage (not-recycle condition). In the control condition, there was no mention of this bottle. Participants then rated the target on how moral they perceived him to be overall on a scale from 1 (not moral at all) to 6 (extremely moral)’ (Feinberg & Willer, 2013, p. 3).

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‘we hypothesized that liberals express greater levels of environmental concern than do conservatives in part because liberals are more likely to view environmental issues in moral terms’

(Feinberg & Willer, 2013, p. 2)

Feinberg & Willer, 2013 p. 2

How do they justify this claim? I think the argument is indirect.

‘A mediation analysis (Preacher & Hayes, 2008) revealed that perception of the environment as a moral issue was a significant partial mediator of the relationship between liberalism and environmental attitudes’ (Feinberg & Willer, 2013, p. 3).

Preacher & Hayes (2008, p. figure 1)

This paper is about how to detect multiple mediators (see figure 2), but we don't need that complexity.

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‘we hypothesized that liberals express greater levels of environmental concern than do conservatives in part because liberals are more likely to view environmental issues in moral terms’

(Feinberg & Willer, 2013, p. 2)

Feinberg & Willer, 2013 p. 2

Return to overall question and point out that it has now been answered ...
but there is a bonus (which strengthens the case for the answer)

Do cultural differences in moral psychology explain political conflict on climate change? Yes!

Plan:

Work through Feinberg & Willer, 2013 ‘The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes’