The Making of Moral Foundations Theory with Jesse Graham
The Moral Science Podcast
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The Effect of Moral Framing on Liberals
There's a really nice paper by Matt Feinberg and Rob Willer, where they were doing moral foundations framing to try to change people's openness to environmental actions. They found that that had a big effect, that it actually brought conservatives and moderates up to almost liberal levels of sort of supporting that. And there you could say, well, this is normative research. This is classic liberal researchers who want to get people to be more environmentally correct. But then they did a follow up paper, which I thought was great because they looked at a whole bunch of different issues. And they moved like in the environmental case where they moved conservatives in a liberal direction. But they also had plenty of studies where
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