Table 1. Spearman Rank correlations between ideology or belief in climate change and participants’ valuations of the five moral axes from Moral Foundations Theory (rated as 1: strongly disagree to 6: strongly agree).
Moral Axes | Nonharming | Fairness | In-group loyalty | Authority | Purity |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ideology, 1: strong liberal to 7: strong conservative | -.09 ** | -.14 *** | .28 *** | .30 *** | .39 *** |
Belief climate change is happening, no = 1, yes = 2 | .10 ** | .12 *** | -.17 *** | -.14 *** | -.16 *** |
Data are rho; N is 915 unique individuals for whom there were no missing values for any parameters we analyzed in this study of 1,000 participants in Cornell’s National Telephone Survey.
** p<0.01,
*** p<0.001.