Purity, Politics, and Polarization: Political Ideology Moderates Shifts in Moral Purity Beliefs to Economic Threat

Study 1 Variables:

Threat: Var00001 (1=threat, 2=control)

Anxiety manipulation check: Anxiety

Moral Foundations Endorsement: MFQ_HARM_AVG, MFQ_FAIRNESS_AVG, MFQ_INGROUP_AVG, MFQ_AUTHORITY_AVG, MFQ_PURITY_AVG

Political Ideology (higher scores mean the participant is more conservative): PolitID

Pro-life New Zealand charity: Purity_donation_true

Study 2 Variables: 

Threat: Condition (1=threat, 0=control)

Anxiety manipulation check: AffectMC11

Purity Endorsement: MFQ_HARM_AVG, MFQ_FAIRNESS_AVG, MFQ_INGROUP_AVG, MFQ_AUTHORITY_AVG, MFQ_PURITY_AVG

Political Ideology (higher scores mean the participant is more conservative): POLiD

Casual sex disapproval: xCASUAL_SEX