Moral Foundations of Harm, Authority and Purity, and Tightness toward Social Norms predictive of Attitudes toward Immigrants

Principle Author
Aleyda Arreola
Graduate

Co-Author(s)
Ethan Gibeaut, Chassity Mendoza, Heydi Garcia, Roque V. Mendez, Ph. D.

Abstract

We examined underlying factors linked with Attitudes toward immigrants. Results show that in general, those who value protecting individuals from Harm held more favorable attitudes toward immigrants, while those valuing obedience to Authority as well as those valuing Purity held more negative views toward immigrants. Furthermore, those valuing tighter cultural values also displayed more negative attitudes toward immigrants. However, when broken into groups based on ethnicity, findings related to Purity and Tightness only held up in the Caucasian participant pool.