Comments for YourMorals.Org Moral Psychology Blog http://www.yourmorals.org/blog Moral Psychology Findings and Discussion Thu, 30 May 2013 20:44:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on How to translate the MFQ by Jesse Graham http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2010/01/how-to-translate-the-mfq/comment-page-1/#comment-6419 Jesse Graham Thu, 30 May 2013 20:44:41 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=94#comment-6419 Hi Anna, you can find the Dutch translation here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvIo2znxWnxZdGhoYnhuZ2hOaFhEQUxWRndGQUIzRWc&gid=1 . Thanks for your interest! Jesse Hi Anna, you can find the Dutch translation here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvIo2znxWnxZdGhoYnhuZ2hOaFhEQUxWRndGQUIzRWc&gid=1 . Thanks for your interest!

Jesse

]]> Comment on How to translate the MFQ by Anna Lena http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2010/01/how-to-translate-the-mfq/comment-page-1/#comment-6359 Anna Lena Fri, 24 May 2013 12:24:13 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=94#comment-6359 Dear Sir or Madam, We are looking for a Dutch translation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire for our university research project. Although it is not listed on this website, we would like to know if you are aware of a translation elsewhere. Please let us know! Kind regards, Ayla, Nout and Anna Lena Dear Sir or Madam,

We are looking for a Dutch translation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire for our university research project. Although it is not listed on this website, we would like to know if you are aware of a translation elsewhere. Please let us know!

Kind regards,

Ayla, Nout and Anna Lena

]]> Comment on What Is Happiness? Five Characteristics of Happy People by Guy Farmer http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2013/03/what-is-happiness-five-characteristics-of-happy-people/comment-page-1/#comment-6343 Guy Farmer Thu, 23 May 2013 08:42:05 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=558#comment-6343 Great article. I wonder whether self-awareness is also a major component of happiness, as in: Someone who deeply understands who they are at their core and has worked through their issues has a greater potential to be happy than someone who lives unconsciously. Great article. I wonder whether self-awareness is also a major component of happiness, as in: Someone who deeply understands who they are at their core and has worked through their issues has a greater potential to be happy than someone who lives unconsciously.

]]> Comment on Differences between white male liberals and white male conservatives by Craig Critchfield http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2010/10/differences-between-white-male-liberals-and-white-male-conservatives/comment-page-1/#comment-6245 Craig Critchfield Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:32:29 +0000 http://www.polipsych.com/?p=347#comment-6245 The reason white men are deserting the Democratic Party is obvious. You don’t need a table of liberal verses conservative characteristics. The reason is explicit in the way they are characterized as being white. The most visible spokesperson for the Democratic Party is not from their tribe. The reason white men are deserting the Democratic Party is obvious. You don’t need a table of liberal verses conservative characteristics. The reason is explicit in the way they are characterized as being white. The most visible spokesperson for the Democratic Party is not from their tribe.

]]> Comment on What Is Happiness? Five Characteristics of Happy People by Craig Critchfield http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2013/03/what-is-happiness-five-characteristics-of-happy-people/comment-page-1/#comment-6244 Craig Critchfield Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:52:25 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=558#comment-6244 What is happiness? Could it be that what your surveys have found is that, because people are happy, they are able to make these five little decisions? Have you simply found that happiness generates further well-being? Aren’t our emotional states continuously changing, and isn’t our perception of emotion relative? Happiness happens when I become aware that I’m on the upstroke of the pleasure/pain continuum. What is happiness? Could it be that what your surveys have found is that, because people are happy, they are able to make these five little decisions? Have you simply found that happiness generates further well-being? Aren’t our emotional states continuously changing, and isn’t our perception of emotion relative? Happiness happens when I become aware that I’m on the upstroke of the pleasure/pain continuum.

]]> Comment on Why Be Spiritual? Five Benefits of Spirituality by Craig Critchfield http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2013/03/why-be-spiritual-benefits-of-spirituality/comment-page-1/#comment-6243 Craig Critchfield Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:44:13 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=548#comment-6243 I heartily agree with your conclusions regarding the personal and societal benefits of spiritualism. I consider myself to be a very spiritual person. However, when I take the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, I score a near zero in the Sanctity/Degradation foundation. Apparently the questionnaire doesn’t appreciate people who worship and sanctify life. I heartily agree with your conclusions regarding the personal and societal benefits of spiritualism. I consider myself to be a very spiritual person. However, when I take the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, I score a near zero in the Sanctity/Degradation foundation. Apparently the questionnaire doesn’t appreciate people who worship and sanctify life.

]]> Comment on The Moral Foundations of Environmentalists by Craig Critchfield http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2013/04/the-moral-foundations-of-environmentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-6240 Craig Critchfield Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:13:09 +0000 http://www.polipsych.com/?p=789#comment-6240 I wouldn’t attribute such compassionate anthropomorphistic tendencies to environmentalists. I’m guessing they see things from a very selfish cost-benefit perspective. They just think they’re living in the same world as those distant animals, oceans and trees. I wouldn’t attribute such compassionate anthropomorphistic tendencies to environmentalists. I’m guessing they see things from a very selfish cost-benefit perspective. They just think they’re living in the same world as those distant animals, oceans and trees.

]]> Comment on Haidt’s Final Response to Pigliucci by Mack http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2011/02/haidts-final-response-to-pigliucci/comment-page-1/#comment-6051 Mack Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:13:20 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=352#comment-6051 Prof Haidt - do you think that moral propositions can be true or false? If yes, could it not be the case that the moral propositions that underpin some conservative claims are false? Could this not be a partial explanation for the lack of conservatives in a field which studies human behaviour? Wouldn't artificially increasing the number of conservatives in psychology amount to discarding the possibility that psychologists are liberal because liberal politics is truer than conservative politics, and psychologists may have a greater body of evidence to believe that liberal political views are more true than conservative political views, given the nature of their work? I actually think that there is a lot of merit in the idea of recognising and trying to limit the effects of the whole 'tribal-moral community' (though I hate the terminology, frickin psychology, always trying to reduce socially conditioned behaviour to 'ah yes now I understand how the human brain works'), and I think that there may be some power dynamics in social science academia which is restrictive. I just don't understand how you can reconcile being a moral realist and interfering in a scientific process which may just be filtering out good from bad politics. Prof Haidt – do you think that moral propositions can be true or false? If yes, could it not be the case that the moral propositions that underpin some conservative claims are false? Could this not be a partial explanation for the lack of conservatives in a field which studies human behaviour? Wouldn’t artificially increasing the number of conservatives in psychology amount to discarding the possibility that psychologists are liberal because liberal politics is truer than conservative politics, and psychologists may have a greater body of evidence to believe that liberal political views are more true than conservative political views, given the nature of their work? I actually think that there is a lot of merit in the idea of recognising and trying to limit the effects of the whole ‘tribal-moral community’ (though I hate the terminology, frickin psychology, always trying to reduce socially conditioned behaviour to ‘ah yes now I understand how the human brain works’), and I think that there may be some power dynamics in social science academia which is restrictive. I just don’t understand how you can reconcile being a moral realist and interfering in a scientific process which may just be filtering out good from bad politics.

]]> Comment on In Search of Liberal Purity by Politics Ain’t Rocket Science — Or Any Other Kind | Professor Mondo http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2010/02/in-search-of-liberal-purity/comment-page-1/#comment-5953 Politics Ain’t Rocket Science — Or Any Other Kind | Professor Mondo Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:04:45 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=34#comment-5953 [...] purity and sanctity than do liberals. This may be so, but it’s pretty clear that liberals are not immune from concerns about purity and sanctity. While conservatives moralize about the purity and sanctity of sex and reproduction, liberals fret [...] [...] purity and sanctity than do liberals. This may be so, but it’s pretty clear that liberals are not immune from concerns about purity and sanctity. While conservatives moralize about the purity and sanctity of sex and reproduction, liberals fret [...]

]]> Comment on In Search of Liberal Purity by Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things? | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/2010/02/in-search-of-liberal-purity/comment-page-1/#comment-5938 Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things? | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:38:04 +0000 http://www.yourmorals.org/blog/?p=34#comment-5938 [...] purity and sanctity than do liberals. This may be so, but it’s pretty clear that liberals are not immune from concerns about purity and sanctity. While conservatives moralize about the purity and sanctity of sex and reproduction, liberals fret [...] [...] purity and sanctity than do liberals. This may be so, but it’s pretty clear that liberals are not immune from concerns about purity and sanctity. While conservatives moralize about the purity and sanctity of sex and reproduction, liberals fret [...]

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