Developing and testing an implicit measure of moral foundation accessibility

Scott David Frankowski, University of Texas at El Paso

Abstract

Moral Foundations Theory provides a framework for understanding moral judgments and behavior. With the present research, I developed a word fragment task as an implicit measure of moral foundation accessibility. In an experiment, I used this measure as a predictor of moral attitudes and behaviors toward two moral violations. Responses on this implicit measure predicted moral attitudes; however, the priming conditions did not affect responses. The failure of the primes are discussed, as well as future directions.

Subject Area

Social psychology

Recommended Citation

Frankowski, Scott David, "Developing and testing an implicit measure of moral foundation accessibility" (2014). ETD Collection for University of Texas, El Paso. AAI1583910.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/dissertations/AAI1583910

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