Morality in social media: A scoping review

D Neumann, N Rhodes - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media platforms have been adopted rapidly into our current culture and affect nearly
all areas of our everyday lives. Their prevalence has raised questions about the influence of …

“You're still worth it”: The moral and relational context of politically motivated unfriending decisions in online networks

G Neubaum, M Cargnino, S Winter, S Dvir-Gvirsman - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Political disagreements in social media can result in removing (ie,“unfriending”) a person
from one's online network. Given that such actions could lead to the (ideological) …

Moral foundations predict perceptions of moral permissibility of COVID-19 public health guideline violations in United States university students

K Bruchmann, L LaPierre - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has become highly politicized and highly
moralized. The current study explored whether participants'(N= 118) endorsements of …

Punishing Protesters on the “Other Side”: Partisan bias in public support for repressive and punitive responses to protest violence

JR Silver, L Shi - Socius, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors investigated public support for government repression of protests (police
repression, legal repression, and punishment of protesters) following incidents of violence …

Virtuous victims

JJ Jordan, M Kouchaki - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
How do people perceive the moral character of victims? We find, across a range of
transgressions, that people frequently see victims of wrongdoing as more moral than …

Are we deliberately captivated in homogeneous cocoons? An investigation on political tie building on Facebook

M Cargnino, G Neubaum - Mass Communication and Society, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The idea that users of social networking sites (SNS) isolate themselves within like-minded,
homogeneous communication environments has been receiving growing scholarly …

Facing discomfort: Avoided negative affect shapes the acknowledgment of systemic racism.

K Murray, B Koopmann-Holm - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Why can some Americans acknowledge the deeply rooted racism in the United States while
others cannot? Past research suggests that the more people want to avoid feeling negative …

Stereotypes about compassion across the political spectrum.

JA Scheffer, CD Cameron, S McKee, E Hadjiandreou… - Emotion, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
To what extent are ideological differences in compassion real or exaggerated, and who is
more likely to engage in stereotyping about such differences? In five studies, including three …

Political ideology predicts attitudes toward moral transgressors

CT Smith, KA Ratliff, L Redford, J Graham - Journal of research in …, 2019 - Elsevier
We combine recent theoretical advances in the study of morality with a growing interest in
the predictive power of political ideology to test new hypotheses concerning impression …

[HTML][HTML] Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change

TI Vaughan-Johnston, LR Fabrigar, J Xia… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Whereas actual attitudes represent people's evaluations of specific objects as being good or
bad, desired attitudes represent the attitude positions that people wish they held. Previous …