Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Investigating the role of group-based morality in extreme behavioral expressions of prejudice

  • Joe Hoover,
  • Mohammad Atari,
  • Aida Mostafazadeh Davani,
  • Brendan Kennedy,
  • Gwenyth Portillo-Wightman,
  • Leigh Yeh,
  • Morteza Dehghani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24786-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Understanding motivations underlying acts of hatred are essential for developing strategies to prevent such acts against marginalized groups. Here the authors show that group-based moral values are associated with tendency to justify extreme behavioural expressions of prejudice.