Moral foundations theory, political identity, and the depiction of morality in children's movies.

ABSTRACT: Children's movies often provide messages about morally appropriate and inappropriate conduct. In two studies, we draw on Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) to derive predictions about actual depictions of morality, and people's preferences for different moral depictions, within children's movies. According to MFT, people's moral concerns include individualizing foundations of care and fairness and binding foundations of loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Prior work reveals that although there are political differences in the endorsement of these two broad categories-whereby stronger political conservatism predicts stronger binding concerns and weaker individualizing concerns-there nonetheless is broad agreement across political identity in the importance of individualizing concerns. We therefor

SUBMITTER: Gehman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7996984 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature