Signaling (in)tolerance: the reputational implications of metaethical relativism and objectivism
David Moss,
Andres Montealegre,
Lance S. Bush
et al.
Abstract:Prior work has established that lay people do not consistently treat moral questions as matters of objective truth or as merely being true relative to different perspectives, but rather these metaethical judgements vary dramatically depending on the moral issue in question and in response to different social influences. In the present research, we provide evidence for a novel account of the social function such metaethical judgements play in expressing tolerance or intolerance of disagreement. We propose that,… Show more
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