I have loved Jonathan Haidt's work, as you know, but felt he missed a trick with Moral Foundations Theory when he did not include some easy tests whether liberals also relied on loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation, as conservatives do. I was willing to grant that conservatives might do it more, not just differently.
Well, now Blumenal and Lauderdale come along and say even that is going too far. Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Very Similar Sets of Foundations When Comparing Moral Violations. From the Abstract:
Our results suggest that, despite prominent claims to the contrary, voters on the left and the right of politics share broadly similar moral intuitions.
Haidt is also under fire now for not backing down on his claim that social media has created a catastrophic change in our interactions, which "The Studies Show" covered this week. It is their view that the evidence for this is not strong, though it is anecdotally powerful. I was reminded of GK Chesterton's observation that the things that "everyone knows" are quite likely to conceal untrue things, that many people deeply hope are true.
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