Politics Turns Moral Foundations into Consequences of Intergroup Attitudes

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Applying a longitudinal design, we tested the directions of the relationships between moral foundations and attitudes toward Muslim immigrants. The study was conducted during the official campaign period of the Hungarian parliamentary elections in 2018. It was found that moral foundations are consequences of intergroup attitudes. Latent change modeling showed that while individualizing foundations were independent of anti-Muslim attitudes, longitudinal change in binding foundations was predicted by prior anti-Muslim attitudes, but not the other way around. Furthermore, this relationship was moderated by exposure to the anti-Muslim and anti-immigration campaigns led by the government. These results suggest that people are motivated to harmonize their moral concerns with their prior social beliefs, and they actively utilize available political messages in this process.

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Hadarics, M., & Kende, A. (2021). Politics Turns Moral Foundations into Consequences of Intergroup Attitudes. Social Psychology, 52(3), 185–196. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000447

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