High economic inequality is linked to greater moralization

Throughout the 21st century, economic inequality is predicted to increase as we face new challenges, from changes in the technological landscape to the growing climate crisis. It is crucial we understand how these changes in inequality may affect how people think and behave. We propose that economic...

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Autores: Kirkland, Kelly, Lange, Paul A. M. van, Gorenz, Drew, Blake, Khandis, Amiot, Catherine E., Ausmees, Liisi, Baguma, Peter, Barry, Oumar, Becker, Maja, Bilewicz, Michal, Boonyasiriwat, Watcharaporn, Booth, Robert W., Castelain, Thomas, Costantini, Giulio, Dimdins, Girts, Espinosa, Agustín, Finchilescu, Gillian, Fischer, Ronald, Friese, Malte, Gómez Jiménez, Ángel, González, Roberto, Goto, Nobuhiko, Halama, Peter, Hurtado-Parrado, Camilo, Ilustrisimo, Ruby, Jiga-Boy, Gabriela M., Kuppens, Peter, Loughnan, Steve, Mastor, Khairul A., McLatchie, Neil, Novak, Lindsay M., Onyekachi, Blessing N., Rizwan, Muhammad, Schaller, Mark, Serafimovska, Eleonora, Suh, Eunkook M., Swann, William B., Tong, Eddie M.W., Torres, Ana, Turner, Rhiannon N., Vauclair, Christin Melanie, Vinogradov, Alexander, Wang, Zhechen, Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan, Bastian, Brock
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/25540
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/25540
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Anomia
Anomy
Desigualtat social
Equality
Desigualtat social -- Aspectes ètics i morals
Equality -- Moral and ethical aspects
Moral pràctica
Conduct of life
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Resumo:Throughout the 21st century, economic inequality is predicted to increase as we face new challenges, from changes in the technological landscape to the growing climate crisis. It is crucial we understand how these changes in inequality may affect how people think and behave. We propose that economic inequality threatens the social fabric of society, in turn increasing moralization—that is, the greater tendency to employ or emphasize morality in everyday life—as an attempt to restore order and control. Using longitudinal data from X, formerly known as Twitter, our first study demonstrates that high economic inequality is associated with greater use of moral language online (e.g. the use of words such as “disgust”, “hurt”, and “respect’). Study 2 then examined data from 41 regions around the world, generally showing that higher inequality has a small association with harsher moral judgments of people's everyday actions. Together these findings demonstrate that economic inequality is linked to the tendency to see the world through a moral lens

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