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Moral conviction refers to the perception that one's feelings about a given attitude are based on one's beliefs about right and wrong. Holding an attitude with moral conviction means that a person has attached moral significance to it.
Feb 24, 2021 · Moral conviction is, for example, associated with increased political engagement and volunteerism (generally seen as normative goods), but also predicts increased intolerance and unwillingness to compromise with those who do not share one’s moral point of view (generally seen as normative bads).
This review covers theory and research on the psychological characteristics and consequences of attitudes that are experienced as moral convictions, that is, attitudes that people perceive as grounded in a fundamental distinction between right and wrong.
Jan 18, 2019 · Instead, moral convictions are seen as compelling mandates, indicating what everyone “ought” to or “should” do. This has important social implications, as people also expect others to follow these behavioral guidelines.
- Naomi Ellemers, Jojanneke van der Toorn, Jojanneke van der Toorn, Yavor Paunov, Thed van Leeuwen
- 2019
Apr 1, 2010 · This paper reviews current theory and research that indicates that attitudes held with strong moral conviction (‘moral mandates’) represent something psychologically distinct from other...
Aug 10, 2023 · For example, stronger moral convictions about issues or candidates are associated with increased activist intentions (e.g., Mazzoni et al. 2015), actual activist behavior (e.g., Sabucedo et al. 2018), and both prospective and retrospective reports of voting, something equally true of those on the political right and left (e.g., Skitka and ...
Controversies such as abortion, same-sex marriage, gun control, capital punishment, and health care reform each seem to have advocates and opponents who see these issues in terms of self-evident and funda-mental truths about right and wrong.
