Finding common ground: Can shared moral convictions, attitudes, or identities mitigate intolerance?

• In Event: Core Political Orientations

Brief Overview

In surveys about hypothetical disagreements, we found that shared moral beliefs reduced political intolerance more consistently than shared non-moral attitudes or shared partisanship. In fact, shared partisanship had no discernible effect.

Authors

• Pierce David Ekstrom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Lindsay Novak, University of Illinois Chicago