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The Advent of the COVID-19 Epidemic Did Not Affect Americans’ Endorsement of Moral Foundations

Prior work has suggested that existential threats in the form of terror attacks may shift liberals’ reliance on moral foundations to more resemble those of conservatives. We therefore hypothesized that endorsement of these moral foundations would have increased when the COVID-19 epidemic became a sa...

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Autores principales: Vartanova, Irina, Eriksson, Kimmo, Kirgil, Zeynep Melis, Strimling, Pontus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8355496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393889
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647858
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author Vartanova, Irina
Eriksson, Kimmo
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description Prior work has suggested that existential threats in the form of terror attacks may shift liberals’ reliance on moral foundations to more resemble those of conservatives. We therefore hypothesized that endorsement of these moral foundations would have increased when the COVID-19 epidemic became a salient threat. To examine this hypothesis we conducted a longitudinal study with 237 American participants across the liberal-conservative spectrum, in which their endorsement of various moral foundations were measured before and after the advent of the pandemic. We did not find evidence of any systematic change in the endorsement of any moral foundation, neither in general nor specifically among liberals or specifically among those who perceived the greatest threat from COVID-19. We conclude that the threat from the pandemic does not seem to have had any substantial effect on the moral foundations that people rely on. We discuss how this finding relates to other longitudinal studies of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on measures related to conservatism.
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spelling pubmed-83554962021-08-12 The Advent of the COVID-19 Epidemic Did Not Affect Americans’ Endorsement of Moral Foundations Vartanova, Irina Eriksson, Kimmo Kirgil, Zeynep Melis Strimling, Pontus Front Psychol Psychology Prior work has suggested that existential threats in the form of terror attacks may shift liberals’ reliance on moral foundations to more resemble those of conservatives. We therefore hypothesized that endorsement of these moral foundations would have increased when the COVID-19 epidemic became a salient threat. To examine this hypothesis we conducted a longitudinal study with 237 American participants across the liberal-conservative spectrum, in which their endorsement of various moral foundations were measured before and after the advent of the pandemic. We did not find evidence of any systematic change in the endorsement of any moral foundation, neither in general nor specifically among liberals or specifically among those who perceived the greatest threat from COVID-19. We conclude that the threat from the pandemic does not seem to have had any substantial effect on the moral foundations that people rely on. We discuss how this finding relates to other longitudinal studies of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on measures related to conservatism. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8355496/ /pubmed/34393889 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647858 Text en Copyright © 2021 Vartanova, Eriksson, Kirgil and Strimling. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8355496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393889
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647858
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