{"id":673,"date":"2026-03-16T06:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/liberals-and-conservatives-see-different-victims-moral-disagreement-is-explained-by-different-assumptions-of-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:49:29","slug":"liberals-and-conservatives-see-different-victims-moral-disagreement-is-explained-by-different-assumptions-of-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/liberals-and-conservatives-see-different-victims-moral-disagreement-is-explained-by-different-assumptions-of-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals and Conservatives See Different Victims: Moral Disagreement Is Explained by Different Assumptions of Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>all forms of judgment\u2014including moral judgment\u2014is a process of categorization (McHugh et al., 2022). When people wonder whether an act is immoral, they are questioning how well it belongs in the category of \u201cimmorality.\u201d For 50\u2009years, we have known that categorization judgments involve the process of template comparison, where our minds compare a potential example to an underlying mental template\u2014also called a concept, prototype, or schema (Rosch, 1978). The closer the match between the example and the template, the more it is judged as belonging to that category (Murphy, 2004). With morality, the more an act matches our template of the concept \u201cimmorality\u201d the more it is judged as \u201cimmoral.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/01461672261422957\">journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/01461672261422957<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>all forms of judgment\u2014including moral judgment\u2014is a process of categorization (McHugh et al., 2022). When people wonder whether an act is immoral, they are questioning how well it belongs in the category of \u201cimmorality.\u201d For 50\u2009years, we have known that categorization judgments involve the process of template comparison, where our minds compare a potential example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,31,7],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-categories","tag-concepts","tag-consciousness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}