icedteas.bsky.social
Survey Research Scientist at Far Harbor, LLC | Academic research on attitude moralization and political conflict
👤 Joined on 19 September 2023
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@icedteas.bsky.social🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8
Show PostIn a followup study, a number of political polarization interventions were not found to be successful at pushing around any of the three types of moral convinction, which may suggest that these aspects of moral conviction are more trait-like in nature.
Show PostNotably, *not* all types of moral conviction were associated with moral absolutism or ant democratic attitudes. Inparty moralization, for example, was most strongly associated with positive partisanship and the centrality of one’s party identification.
Show Post@icedteas.bsky.social presented interesting work at #SPSP2026 suggesting that (political) moral conviction seems to have three distinct facets, focused on: inparty moralization, moralized disagreement, and moralized character judgment (for being a member of the outparty).
Show PostHow Americans feel about 10 recent Department of Homeland Security social media posts. (@taylororth.bsky.social @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260125
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