Highlights•Explores an explanatory coherence perspective on moral reasoning.•People
reverse engineer descriptive beliefs to support desired moral conclusions.•People ascribe …

Political orientation is an individual's preference for a particular style of government, often
conceptualised through the left-right (liberal-conservative) axis. Previous studies suggest …

Transgender identity inherently involves body politics, specifically how transgender people
may physically represent gender in ways that do not match their assigned sex at birth and …

Much research has examined the views held by citizens about sexual offenders and related
policy responses. Although studies have extensively examined demographic correlates of …

A range of studies have demonstrated that people implicitly treat out-groups as the carriers
of pathogens and that considerable prejudice against out-groups is driven by concerns …

What leads children to moralize actions that cause no apparent harm? We hypothesized that
adults' verbal instruction (“testimony”), as well as emotions such as disgust, would influence …

Although abortion and euthanasia are highly contested issues at the heart of the culture war,
the moral foundations underlying ideological differences on these issues are mostly …

Emotions are central to human behavior and thus not surprisingly to politics as well. One
need not look far to see them at work. Election campaigns are replete with emotion, from …

Fears, phobias, and dislikes about minorities should be strong determinants of whether
Americans support policies protecting such minorities. Studies suggest that discussions and …

A growing body of research indicates that greater disgust sensitivity is associated with more
socially conservative values. However, the mechanism by which disgust is linked to social …