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SUBMITTER: Iyer R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3424229 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iyer Ravi R Koleva Spassena S Graham Jesse J Ditto Peter P Haidt Jonathan J
PloS one 20120821 8
Libertarians are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S. politics, yet they have been largely unstudied. Across 16 measures in a large web-based sample that included 11,994 self-identified libertarians, we sought to understand the moral and psychological characteristics of self-described libertarians. Based on an intuitionist view of moral judgment, we focused on the underlying affective and cognitive dispositions that accompany this unique worldview. Compared to self-identified libe ...[more]