Factors of Perception of Moral Relevance of Normative Transgressions: a Cognitive-Sociological Approach Perspectives

Student: Naryan Svetlana

Educational Programme: Complex Social Analysis (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The goal of this work was to discover which factors determine the perception of situations as morally relevant. We used the experiment method with the moral foundations vignettes (MFV). The experiment was conducted using an online platform surveymonkey. In the experimental model, assessments of moral relevance and normativity, as well as the perceived universality of these assessments, were included as dependent variables. The independent variables were the moral foundations to which the assessed scenarios belong, as well as the scale of political conservatism. As a result, it was found that the average values of perceived moral relevance and perceived normativity are significantly different both in the overall average value and for each of the moral foundations.

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