Classifying public policies with Moral Foundations Theory

Wendell, Dane G.; Tatalovich, Raymond

doi:10.1007/s11077-020-09399-8

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“…This suggests that the partisan leniency we explored may have been particularly robust if the issues we chose were related to participants’ own moral mandates. Future research should explore whether policy lies in support of less morally relevant issues (e.g., economic issues like tariff policies; Mooney, 2001; Permoser, 2019; Wendell & Tatalovich, 2021) or those that are framed in less morally relevant terms (Mucciaroni et al, 2019) would receive the same magnified partisan evaluations. This may depend on whether such falsehoods still signal trustworthy allegiance to a group that advances a morally laden agenda in other ways.…”

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Who sees which political falsehoods as more acceptable and why: A new look at in-group loyalty and trustworthiness.

Galak¹,

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2023

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Many politicians—even those who occupy some of the most powerful offices in the world—lie. Five studies examined how conservative and liberal Americans responded to media reports of politicians’ falsehoods—that is, flagged falsehoods (FFs). Even accounting for partisan biases in how much participants dismissed such reports as fake news and assumed that such lies were unintentional, we consistently observed partisan evaluations in how much FFs were seen as justifiable: Republicans and Democrats alike saw their own party’s FFs as more acceptable (Studies 1–4). This charitability did not reflect unconditional in-group favoritism. Instead, it was strongest for policy FFs—those meant to advance a party’s explicit agenda—as opposed to personal FFs about a politician’s past (Study 2) or electoral FFs that strayed from parties’ explicit goals by aiming to disenfranchise legally eligible voters (Study 4). Although FFs can undermine general trustworthiness in the eyes of both in-group and out-group members, policy FFs in particular signal partisan trustworthiness (Studies 3–5)—the belief that a politician can be trusted by their own political side and not by the other. For likeminded partisans, such partisan trustworthiness predicted not only the perceived acceptability of FFs, but also perceptions of the politician as a more prototypically moral actor, even outside of the political sphere. These findings validate the importance of our dual conception of trustworthiness in intergroup contexts.

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Who sees which political falsehoods as more acceptable and why: A new look at in-group loyalty and trustworthiness.

Galak¹,

Critcher²

2023

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Some researchers have investigated the potential role of morality subcultures in mediating the connection between one's nationality and preferences for movie and TV genres [57]. While others have explored moral foundations for classifying public policies [58].…”

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Soundscapes of morality: Linking music preferences and moral values through lyrics and audio

Preniqi¹,

Kalimeri²,

Saitis³

2023

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Music is a fundamental element in every culture, serving as a universal means of expressing our emotions, feelings, and beliefs. This work investigates the link between our moral values and musical choices through lyrics and audio analyses. We align the psychometric scores of 1,480 participants to acoustics and lyrics features obtained from the top 5 songs of their preferred music artists from Facebook Page Likes. We employ a variety of lyric text processing techniques, including lexicon-based approaches and BERT-based embeddings, to identify each song's narrative, moral valence, attitude, and emotions. In addition, we extract both low- and high-level audio features to comprehend the encoded information in participants' musical choices and improve the moral inferences. We propose a Machine Learning approach and assess the predictive power of lyrical and acoustic features separately and in a multimodal framework for predicting moral values. Results indicate that lyrics and audio features from the artists people like inform us about their morality. Though the most predictive features vary per moral value, the models that utilised a combination of lyrics and audio characteristics were the most successful in predicting moral values, outperforming the models that only used basic features such as user demographics, the popularity of the artists, and the number of likes per user.Audio features boosted the accuracy in the prediction of empathy and equality compared to textual features, while the opposite happened for hierarchy and tradition, where higher prediction scores were driven by lyrical features. This demonstrates the importance of both lyrics and audio features in capturing moral values.The insights gained from our study have a broad range of potential uses, including customising the music experience to meet individual needs, music rehabilitation, or even effective communication campaign crafting.

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“…Using moral rhetoric in discrete choice models can also shed light on the changing relationship between rhetoric and vote: for instance, is the domain of care virtue (strongly related to health/healthcare) differently related to voting behaviour before and after COVID-19? Wendell and Tatalovich (2021) argues that some policies are more value-laden than others.…”

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Moral rhetoric in discrete choice models: a Natural Language Processing approach

2023

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This paper proposes a new method to combine choice- and text data to infer moral motivations from people’s actions. To do this, we rely on moral rhetoric, in other words, extracting moral values from verbal expressions with Natural Language Processing techniques. We use moral rhetoric based on a well-established moral, psychological theory called Moral Foundations Theory. We use moral rhetoric as input in Discrete Choice Models to gain insights into moral behaviour based on people’s words and actions. We test our method in a case study of voting and party defection in the European Parliament. Our results indicate that moral rhetoric have significant explanatory power in modelling voting behaviour. We interpret the results in the light of political science literature and propose ways for future investigations.

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Classifying public policies with Moral Foundations Theory

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Who sees which political falsehoods as more acceptable and why: A new look at in-group loyalty and trustworthiness.

Who sees which political falsehoods as more acceptable and why: A new look at in-group loyalty and trustworthiness.

Soundscapes of morality: Linking music preferences and moral values through lyrics and audio

Moral rhetoric in discrete choice models: a Natural Language Processing approach

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