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Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them
In today’s ideologically diverse world, it is pertinent to have a better understanding of how our beliefs of the social world shape our thinking and behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key social values that underlie particular sets of beliefs, referred to here as worldviews....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10370735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37494357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288451 |
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description | In today’s ideologically diverse world, it is pertinent to have a better understanding of how our beliefs of the social world shape our thinking and behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key social values that underlie particular sets of beliefs, referred to here as worldviews. Worldviews encompass beliefs that shape one’s outlook on life and are, therefore, instrumental in providing meaning to one’s reality and one’s understanding as to how one fits in it. They can be classified into five unique types, namely, Localised, Orthodox, Pragmatist, Reward, and Survivor. In this paper we start by proposing a theoretical relationship between this five-factor typology and social values. Following this, we present findings that show that worldviews may be mapped onto the two higher order value dimensions of Openness to Change versus Conservation, and Self-transcendence versus Self-Enhancement. We conclude by outlining the implications that these findings have on understanding individual cognition and society in general. |
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spelling | pubmed-103707352023-07-27 Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them Mifsud, Rebekah Sammut, Gordon PLoS One Research Article In today’s ideologically diverse world, it is pertinent to have a better understanding of how our beliefs of the social world shape our thinking and behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key social values that underlie particular sets of beliefs, referred to here as worldviews. Worldviews encompass beliefs that shape one’s outlook on life and are, therefore, instrumental in providing meaning to one’s reality and one’s understanding as to how one fits in it. They can be classified into five unique types, namely, Localised, Orthodox, Pragmatist, Reward, and Survivor. In this paper we start by proposing a theoretical relationship between this five-factor typology and social values. Following this, we present findings that show that worldviews may be mapped onto the two higher order value dimensions of Openness to Change versus Conservation, and Self-transcendence versus Self-Enhancement. We conclude by outlining the implications that these findings have on understanding individual cognition and society in general. Public Library of Science 2023-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10370735/ /pubmed/37494357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288451 Text en © 2023 Mifsud, Sammut https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mifsud, Rebekah Sammut, Gordon Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them |
title | Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them |
title_full | Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them |
title_fullStr | Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them |
title_full_unstemmed | Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them |
title_short | Worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them |
title_sort | worldviews and the role of social values that underlie them |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10370735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37494357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288451 |
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