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. 2016 Oct 19;11(10):e0163852. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163852

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.