Human Values and Sophistication Interaction Theory

Goren, Paul; Smith, Brianna; Motta, Matthew

doi:10.1007/s11109-020-09611-8

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“…In light of this, one might question whether less sophisticated and engaged Americans hold meaningful human values. Elsewhere, we present evidence that virtually everyone holds meaningful beliefs about universalism and conservation values, but more work is clearly needed in this area (Goren, Smith, & Motta, 2020). Insofar as human values are held by everyone and political values are not, the theoretical utility of the former relative to the latter becomes increasingly evident.…”

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“…Frist, space limitations preclude a deeper examination of other facets of ideology. Second, a series of companion articles document the predictive relationship between basic human values and economic, social/cultural, and foreign policy ideology, with some attention devoted to the moderating effects of sophistication(Goren, Smith, & Motta, 2020;Rathbun et al, 2016. ).…”

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The Ideational Foundations of Symbolic Ideology

Goren

Motta

Smith

2020

Political Psychology

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Theories of symbolic ideology view it as an affective orientation untouched by ideational content. Drawing on Shalom Schwartz's theory of basic human values, we propose that four bedrock values—universalism, openness to change, conservation, and self‐enhancement—shape symbolic ideology. We explore whether politically sophisticated and unsophisticated individuals ground symbolic ideological identities in cognitive values to a comparable degree. Using data from two nationally representative U.S. surveys, we find that universalism and conservation predict liberal‐conservative attachments for people at all levels of sophistication. By contrast, openness to change and self‐enhancement values appear to have little influence on symbolic ideology. The universalism and conservation effects hold controlling for multiple psychological and individual differences variables. These results suggest that ideational predispositions play a substantial role in shaping symbolic ideology.

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The Ideational Foundations of Symbolic Ideology

Goren

Motta

Smith

2020

Political Psychology

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“…Values are positively evaluated goals that lie at the core of an individual's identity; they capture the ends an individual generally wishes to achieve Feldman, 2003b;Hitlin, 2003). Given their inherently normative content values operate as trans-situational guides for judging alternatives and have been frequently used to understand the adoption of more specific attitudes and behaviors (e.g., Feather, 1995;Goren et al, 2016Goren et al, , 2020Piurko et al, 2011;Rathbun et al, 2016).…”

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Valuing Politics: Explaining Citizen’s Normative Conceptions of Citizenship

Robison

2022

Polit Behav

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Civic duty is a critical feature of explanations of political participation, but why do individuals differ in their propensity to adopt particular civic duty norms? We argue that norms are likely to be adopted when congruent with underlying values and support this contention using evidence from the European Social Survey. We show that individuals who prioritize self-transcendence values (which capture altruistic goals) place much greater emphasis on norms positively related to participation while individuals who prioritize conservation values (which capture goals related to social stability) place much less emphasis on these norms. The substantive influence of personal values in explaining norm adoption is greater than that of education, age, and interpersonal trust. Our results thus provide new insights into how citizens form their normative conceptions of citizenship and also highlight the substantive role played by value orientations in conformity to social norms more generally.

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“…I want people to admire what I do.") Consistent with conventional practice (e.g., Goren et al, 2020), we compute average scores on both the ST (a = 0.87) and SE (a = 0.87) items. A full list of items can be found in the Supplementary Materials.…”

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“…Consequently, we test the robustness of our findings by assessing whether or not variation in average state and country-level indicators of ST values are positively associated with measures of actual social distancing behavior; measured via publicly available phone-tracking data from Google. 7 We created a state-level indicator of ST by calculating average universalism value scores (as a proxy for ST more generally) across states from a nationally representative YouGov survey of N = 10,000 U.S. adults interviewed in 2011 (see: Goren et al, 2020). Similarly, we created a cross-national ST indicator based on average country-level benevolence and universalism value scores, from 60 countries sampled in Wave IV the World Values Survey (WVS; see: WVS 2020).…”

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Apolitical Values & Compliance with Government-Recommended Prosocial Health Behavior

Motta¹,

Goren²

2020

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At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal government and local governments across the U.S. recommended that individuals engage in social distancing and other prosocial health behaviors (e.g., wear a mask when out in public). While social scientists know a fair amount about the extent to which people complied with these recommendations, far less is known about why some people may have been more likely to do so. Building on insights from Human Values Theory, we argue that people who are more self-transcendent (i.e., more likely to put others’ needs before their own) should be more likely to engage in a variety of prosocial health behaviors (PSHB); including social distancing. In a nationally representative survey (N = 1,015) conducted at the start of the coronavirus outbreak, we find that people who are highly self-transcendent were significantly more likely to engage in PSHB. Recognizing the limitations of self-reported data, we validate these findings by merging both international and inter-state phone-tracking data into state and country opinion surveys. We find that, on average, people in both countries and states that place a higher emphasis on self-transcendence values were more likely to engage in social distancing at the start of the pandemic.

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Human Values and Sophistication Interaction Theory

Cited by 19 publications

References 46 publications

The Ideational Foundations of Symbolic Ideology

The Ideational Foundations of Symbolic Ideology

Valuing Politics: Explaining Citizen’s Normative Conceptions of Citizenship

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Human Values and Sophistication Interaction Theory

Cited by 19 publications

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The Ideational Foundations of Symbolic Ideology

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Valuing Politics: Explaining Citizen’s Normative Conceptions of Citizenship

Apolitical Values &amp; Compliance with Government-Recommended Prosocial Health Behavior

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