05 - Linda Skitka: Moral Convictions
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Moral Convictions in a Political Culture Under Tight Control
If high monetary stakes are associated with something you're morally convicted about, other researchers have found that people will temper the moral convictions. So I would imagine in really tight authoritarian states, people really suppress having moral convictions because it would be honestly too costly for them. In looser societies that are not under such tight control, genuine democracies, I imagine that people have many more moral convictions, probably because the cost of having them is not so high.
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