TY - JOUR AU - Di Battista, Silvia AU - Pivetti, Monica AU - Vainio, Annukka AU - Berti, Chiara PY - 2020/03/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Omission and Compromise: The Sacredness of Moral Foundations in Political Groups in Italy JF - Europe’s Journal of Psychology JA - EJOP VL - 16 IS - 1 SE - Research Reports DO - 10.5964/ejop.v16i1.1887 UR - https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1887 SP - 128-147 AB - Sacred values are moral foundations that may make public and political debates among groups hard to resolve. A taboo trade-off framework offers the opportunity of measuring the inviolability and the “sacralization” of moral foundations. In this study, moral foundations in a taboo trade-off framework were assessed in a convenience sample of Italians (N = 224) using a new measure to assess sacred values, the Omission as a Compromise on Moral Foundations scale (OC-MF). The OC-MF measures the willingness of individuals to omit moral foundations in exchange for money. It was predicted that Italian center and left-wing participants would be less willing to compromise individualizing moral foundations as opposed to binding ones, and that center and right-wing participants would be less willing to compromise on binding moral foundations than left-wing participants. Confirmatory Factor Analyses demonstrated the two-factor structure of the OC-MF: individualizing and binding. As predicted, Repeated Measures Anova showed that political orientation was related with differential adoptions of moral foundations as sacred values, with center and left-wing participants refusing to compromise more on individualizing than on binding moral foundations. Moreover, left-wing participants were more willing to compromise on binding moral foundations than center and right-wing participants. The OC-MF shows the hypothesized differences between Italian political groups and offers a new understanding of moral reasoning. These findings provide opportunities for improving ideological debates concerning sacred values. ER -