1. { How does morality intersect with politics? Morality is more than harm and fairness (taste receptors)

2.  Henrich, Heine, & Noranzayan, 2010  Are our participants too WEIRD?  Sears, 1988  Cultures become more individualistic as they become richer.  Does this happen at the individual level too?  Do perceptions of morals and issues change too?  What are the problems of looking at WEIRD societies in terms of moral psychology?  How is a sociocentric morality different?  What were the moral themes found by Shweder in India? How do these relate to Haidt’s? WEIRD

3.  Any experiences dealing with different moral codes when traveling or in other situations?  Disgust—what do we find disgusting? Why are those triggers here and not elsewhere?  Rozin and McCauley—vertical dimension— What is Haidt’s idea here?  What is good and bad about moral disgust?  What elicits moral disgust among liberals vs. conservatives? Haidt’s revelations in India

4.  What determines what we get righteous about?  According to Haidt, why don’t liberals see conservatives clearly?  Duty to own guns and Harvard as Christ’s biggest enemy  How does Haidt’s approach differ from SJT? Morality and political orientation

5.  What does Haidt’s discussion of autism add to our understanding of moral psychology?  What about Kant and Bentham?  If people have different moral values, do they have different moral obligations? Ponderings on ethics

6.  What are some problems that can arise with evolutionary hypotheses?  What is the idea of modularity in evolutionary psychology?  How and why has culture expanded moral triggers over time? Evolutionary psychology

7.  Chart, page 125  Care/harm  Fairness/cheating  Loyalty/betrayal  Authority/subversion  Sanctity/degradation  Liberty/oppression  What about gender and race? Moral foundations theory

8.  Why would this have evolved?  What triggers it?  Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? Care/harm

9.  Why would this have evolved?  What triggers it?  Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives?  What triggers fairness for you?  How does Haidt suggest that proportionality evolved?  What does it mean to agree that the person who works the hardest should make the most? (hardest vs. best) Fairness/cheating

10.  Why would this have evolved?  What triggers it?  Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives? Loyalty/betrayal

11.  Why would this have evolved?  What triggers it?  Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives?  Are we innately hierarchical? Authority/subversion

12.  Why would this have evolved?  What triggers it?  Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives?  What is the “behavioral immune system” and how does that relate to morality?  Who has stronger BISs? Does that relate to moral psychology?  What types of issues relate to sanctity? Sanctity/degradation

13.  Why would this have evolved?  What triggers it?  Do these differ for liberals vs. conservatives?  What is Haidt’s argument for our self- domestication?  Why does it feel good to punish rule-breakers?  How do people react to perceived affronts to their liberty? Liberty/oppression

14.  How do they differ on the 5 dimensions (plus 1)?  Does that give one group an advantage?  What are examples of ads/sound bites that appeal to each of the moral foundations?  What do liberals vs. conservatives tend to appeal to?  Figure p. 158 vs. 161 Liberals and conservatives (and libertarians)

15.  Honesty  Property/ownership  Waste/inefficiency Are there other moral foundations being left out?