Table 1. Predicted and actual Moral Foundations Questionnaire subscore means and standard deviations.
Answers as Typical Liberal | Actual Liberal answers | Answers as Typical Conservative | Actual Conservative answers | ||||||||||
All Liberals | Extreme Liberals | All Conservatives | Extreme Conservatives | ||||||||||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
Relevance: | Harm | 3.77 | 0.93 | 4.00 | 0.80 | 4.11 | 0.80 | 2.46 | 1.11 | 3.43 | 0.95 | 3.23 | 1.11 |
Fairness | 3.87 | 0.90 | 3.78 | 0.82 | 4.00 | 0.76 | 2.29 | 1.07 | 3.11 | 0.91 | 3.11 | 1.12 | |
Ingroup | 2.53 | 0.89 | 2.60 | 0.94 | 2.40 | 0.95 | 3.12 | 0.90 | 2.72 | 0.98 | 2.46 | 1.17 | |
Authority | 2.36 | 0.86 | 2.44 | 0.84 | 2.26 | 0.86 | 3.41 | 0.84 | 2.88 | 0.77 | 3.04 | 0.87 | |
Purity | 2.06 | 1.00 | 2.33 | 0.97 | 2.14 | 1.02 | 3.38 | 0.97 | 3.02 | 0.95 | 3.14 | 1.21 | |
Judgments: | Harm | 3.72 | 0.92 | 3.53 | 0.88 | 3.64 | 0.90 | 2.72 | 1.10 | 2.98 | 0.92 | 2.92 | 0.95 |
Fairness | 3.79 | 0.87 | 3.76 | 0.79 | 4.00 | 0.75 | 2.55 | 1.02 | 3.05 | 0.78 | 2.90 | 0.91 | |
Ingroup | 1.81 | 0.81 | 1.85 | 0.88 | 1.73 | 0.84 | 2.96 | 0.89 | 2.32 | 0.81 | 2.52 | 0.95 | |
Authority | 2.05 | 1.09 | 2.39 | 0.99 | 2.05 | 0.97 | 4.08 | 0.94 | 3.58 | 0.74 | 3.93 | 0.74 | |
Purity | 1.62 | 1.12 | 1.63 | 1.09 | 1.38 | 1.13 | 3.74 | 1.12 | 3.04 | 1.01 | 3.27 | 1.03 |
Note. Top panel shows predicted and actual answers for the study sample, and bottom panel shows the same for the comparison to the nationally-representative dataset, using only items common to both datasets (no items in common for Ingroup judgments). Sample sizes for each statistic, as well as predicted “typical” answers broken down by liberals, moderates, and conservatives, can be found in the supplement.