Journal article
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries
Kelly Kirkland, Charlie R Crimston, Jolanda Jetten, Maksim Rudnev, Cesar Acevedo-Triana, Catherine E Amiot, Liisi Ausmees, Peter Baguma, Oumar Barry, Maja Becker, Michal Bilewicz, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Thomas Castelain, Giulio Costantini, Girts Dimdins, Agustin Espinosa, Gillian Finchilescu, Ronald Fischer, Malte Friese, Maria Cecilia Gastardo-Conaco Show all
Social Psychological and Personality Science | SAGE Publications | Published : 2022
Abstract
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found low generalized trust, greater perceptions of a breakdown in the social fabric of society, and greater perceived economic inequality were associated with smaller moral circles. Generalized trust also helped explain the effects of perceived inequality..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council (ARC)
Awarded by Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies
Awarded by JSPS KAKENHI
Awarded by Latvian Council of Science
Awarded by Polish National Science Center Grant Sonata Bis
Awarded by Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Brock Bastian was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) (grant number DP200101446), Steve Loughnan was supported by the Philip Leverhulme Prize, Roberto Gonzalez was supported by the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (ANID/FONDAP 15130009) and the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (ANID/FONDAP 15110006), Nobuhiko Goto was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI (grant number 19KK0063), Girts Dimdins was supported by the Latvian Council of Science (grant number lzp2018/1-0402), Michal Bilewicz was supported by the Polish National Science Center Grant Sonata Bis (grant number UMO-2017/26/E/HS6/00129). and Maksim Rudnev was supported by a research project implemented as part of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).