Shaping the Modern World With a Stone-Age Brain: The Brexit Referendum and the Moral Foundations Theory

Decision making is not always a reasoned process. It is often subject to reflexive heuristics. The Moral Foundations Theory is a popular theoretical framework that characterises political decisions by adherence to an evolutionary criterion. Based on recurrent ancestral pressures, this model anticipa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David S. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2019-11-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Subjects:
uk
Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/1032