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Moral Foundation Theory and Its Importance

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Psychology Assessment 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 LITERATURE REVIEW1 Moral foundation theory and its foundation1 Relation between political orientation and moral foundation andits importance: 2 HYPOTHESIS 3 CONCLUSION 3 REFERENCES 4 INTRODUCTION Political orientation refers to the thinking of a group of people, region and nation. As per Graham, Nosek & Haidt (2012) point of view, the first two foundations such as harm/care and fairness/cheating are highly concerned with protection

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1Moral foundation theory and its foundation...........................................................................1Relation between political orientation and moral foundation and its importance:.................2HYPOTHESIS.................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTIONPolitical orientation refers to the thinking of a group of people, region and nation. Itmainly focuses on the welfare of the society from democracy, corruption etc. Moral foundationtheory was developed to identify the key areas which highly affected with political orientation asinvestigated by Godwin(2015). The study is mainly concerns on the moral foundation theoryand its relationship with liberal and conservative political orientation. The research study willtest the hypothesis to assess that whether there is any relationship between moral foundation andliberal or conservative political orientation or not. It includes all the virtues, narratives andinstitutions which create social active programmes by which values can be developed in thesociety. This report basically depends on preparing literature review of relationship betweenpolitical orientation and moral foundation.LITERATURE REVIEWMoral foundation theory and its foundationAccording to Graham, Nosek & Haidt (2012) moral foundation theory is developed toidentify the moral content areas which are highly affected in a wide level. It mainly focuses onidentifying and understanding the reasons of various kinds of human behaviour. This theory ismainly divided into five foundations such as Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal,Authority/Subversion and Sanctity/Degradation. As per Graham, Nosek & Haidt (2012) point ofview, the first two foundations such as harm/care and fairness/cheating are highly concernedwith protection and providing fair treatment to individual. On contrast to this, they alsoconsidered as binding foundations because people are bound to perform as per the approach in alarger group. Rest of the three foundations such as in group, authority and purity do not focuseson the individual and group. It is totally based on the welfare of society. It also found that twofoundations are based on liberal orientation approach whereas rest of three are totally based onconservative political orientation. The main reason for developing this theory was to analysis thedifferences in culture which makes great impact on the political ideology. As per Janoff-Bulman& Carnes (2013) there are various scholars which provide difference kinds of moral theory inorder to analyse the future progress of political works. By the use of conservatives, libertarians;different kinds of variation related to opinion have been discussed in this theory. It also refers theposition of liberal which consider as more conservative to make any fair arguments and moreconcerned with various principles like care and equality. According to Janoff-Bulman & Carnes1
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