Which Moral Foundations Predict Willingness to Make Lifestyle Changes to Avert Climate Change in the USA?

ABSTRACT: Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory identifies five moral axes that can influence human motivation to take action on vital problems like climate change. The theory focuses on five moral foundations, including compassion, fairness, purity, authority, and ingroup loyalty; these have been found to differ between liberals and conservatives as well as Democrats and Republicans. Here we show, based on the Cornell National Social Survey (USA), that valuations of compassion and fairness were strong, positive predictors of willingness to act on climate change, whereas purity had a non-significant tendency in the positive direction (p = 0.07). Ingroup loyalty and authority were not supported as important predictor variables using model selection ([Formula: see text]). Compassion and fairness w

SUBMITTER: Dickinson JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5070873 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature