The problem of purity in moral psychology

K Gray, N DiMaggio, C Schein… - Personality and Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Academic Abstract The idea of “purity” transformed moral psychology. Here, we provide the
first systematic review of this concept. Although often discussed as one construct, we reveal …

The Intergroup Value Protection Model: A theoretically integrative and dynamic approach to intergroup conflict escalation in democratic societies

M van Zomeren, C d'Amore, IL Pauls… - Personality and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Scientific Abstract We review social-psychological evidence for a theoretically integrative
and dynamic model of intergroup conflict escalation within democratic societies. Viewing …

Morality in Our Mind and Across Cultures and Politics

K Gray, S Pratt - Annual Review of Psychology, 2025 - annualreviews.org
Moral judgments differ across cultures and politics, but they share a common theme in our
minds: perceptions of harm. Both cultural ethnographies on moral values and psychological …

What we do when we define morality (And why we need to do it)

A Dahl - Psychological Inquiry, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Psychological research on morality relies on definitions of morality. Yet the various
definitions often go unstated. When unstated definitions diverge, theoretical disagreements …

Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks.

JC Jackson, J Halberstadt, M Takezawa… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Why do people assume that a generous person should also be honest? Why do we even
use words like “moral” and “immoral”? We explore these questions with a new model of how …

Political censorship feels acceptable when ideas seem harmful and false

E Kubin, C von Sikorski, K Gray - Political Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
People seem willing to censor disagreeable political and moral ideas. Five studies explore
why people engage in political censorship and test a potential route to decreasing …

Pain sensitivity predicts support for moral and political views across the aisle.

SWS Lee, C Ma - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
We live in a time of exacerbating political polarization. Bridging the ideological divide is
hard. Although some strategies have been found effective for interpersonal persuasion and …

[PDF][PDF] Victimhood: The most powerful force in morality and politics

K Gray, E Kubin - Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2024 - researchgate.net
Victimhood drives morality and politics. Morality evolved to protect from victimization, and
today morality still revolves around concerns about victimhood and harm. Unfortunately …

The impact of corporate social irresponsibility on prosocial consumer behavior

S Kim, H He, A Gustafsson - Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2024 - Springer
Corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) refers to violations of the social contract between
corporations and society. Existing literature documents its tendency to evoke negative …

How perceived polarization predicts attitude moralization (and vice versa): A four-wave longitudinal study during the 2020 US election.

C D'Amore, M van Zomeren… - Journal of personality …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Within structurally polarized and dynamic contexts, such as the US 2020 presidential
elections, the moralization of individuals' attitudes on a specific topic (eg, climate policy) can …