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Perceived moral objectivity: Why some moral issues seem more objective than others.

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Perceived moral objectivity (PMO) differs across moral domains. Care, fairness, and purity violations are seen as more objectively wrong than liberty, loyalty, or authority violations, impacting political polarization.

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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Moral Psychology
  • Meta-ethics

Background:

  • Objectivist morality posits universal moral truths.
  • Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) categorizes morality into six domains: care, fairness, liberty, purity, loyalty, and authority.
  • Perceived Moral Objectivity (PMO) is the belief in universal, absolute moral answers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if PMO varies across the six moral domains outlined by MFT.
  • To test the hypothesis that care, fairness, liberty, and purity foundations have higher PMO than loyalty and authority.
  • To explore the influence of disgust, perceived consensus, religiosity, and political orientation on PMO.

Main Methods:

  • Five studies (N=717 total) were conducted.
  • Participants judged moral violations and rated their objectivity across MFT domains.
  • Additional measures included foundation endorsement, religiosity, political orientation, trait PMO, disgust, and perceived consensus.

Main Results:

  • PMO was significantly higher for care, fairness, and purity violations compared to liberty, loyalty, and authority violations.
  • Disgust, perceived consensus, religiosity, and conservatism predicted higher PMO, independent of moral judgment and foundation endorsement.
  • Findings extend MFT to meta-ethics, revealing domain-specific differences in moral objectivity beliefs.

Conclusions:

  • Meta-ethical beliefs about moral objectivity are not uniform across all moral domains.
  • Differences in PMO across moral foundations may contribute to political polarization, particularly concerning care, fairness, and purity issues.
  • The study highlights the nuanced nature of moral perception and its connection to broader societal divides.