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MORAL FOUNDATIONS THEORY 2Moral Foundations TheoryGraham, J., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2009). Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations.Journal of personality and social psychology,96(5), 1029.The journal by Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt, and Brian Nosek dissects the concept of Moral Foundation Theory in testing whether Liberals and Conservatives assign diverse weights to five stipulated sets of moral intuitions. Technically, the five moral intuitions tested are:Harm/care Fairness/reciprocityIn-group/loyalty Authority/respectPurity/sanctityThe key insight in the ideas built by the journal is that what one moral reasoning type may find rational decision making, a different moral reasoning type will view as irrational due tothe difference in moral starting points or angles. In summary, the journal organizes its thoughts around a central statement that liberals and conservatives do in fact assign different weights on each independent moral intuitions. While Liberals incline more towards moral intuitions such as Harm/care and Fairness/reciprocity in their decision making, conservatives rely more on a balanced nature of all five moral intuitions. Consequently, the rising trend of political groups becoming more polarized has created a major challenge since it has taken away the ability of individuals in one group to indiscriminately interpret the moral reasoning of their counterparts from another group.

MORAL FOUNDATIONS THEORY 3Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2007). When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize.Social Justice Research,20(1), 98-116.The primary purpose of the literature review analysis is to compare the main themes of this journal to the topic that touches on the strong relationship between political orientation and moral foundations, simply put, the scope of the Conservative-Liberal spectrum. When mapping the moral domain, the central thought in the article is that morality is embedded on matters such as rights, harm, and justice. In this case, the conservative’s opposition to social justice appears to be immoral hence is explained as a product of different known moral processes such as social dominance interpretation. The article argues from an anthropological perspective with its moral domain being much broader since it encompasses more aspects of social life and valuing institutions more than individuals. The journal also presents theoretical as well as empirical reasoning to support the five psychological systems that provide the foundations for the existing world’s many moralities. Technically the five foundations are influenced by psychological preparations used in detecting and reaction emotionally to issues like harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, in group/loyalty, authority/respect and purity/sanctity. The article concludes with the thought that political liberalshave moral intuitions embedded on the first two foundations and therefore creating a misunderstanding of the moral motivations of political conservatives who rely on all the five foundations. Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., & Ditto, P. H. (2012). Moral foundations theory: The pragmatic validity of moral pluralism.The articles seek out to answer the phenomenon of where exactly morality comes from and argues that the Moral Foundations Theory was primarily meant to attempt to answer such

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