{"id":5589,"date":"2015-11-02T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T14:30:34","slug":"morals-win-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/11\/02\/morals-win-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Morals Win Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5590\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/qtyGZf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5590\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/11\/16064489288_5221bd6ccc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Hochman, Flickr CC.\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/11\/16064489288_5221bd6ccc_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/11\/16064489288_5221bd6ccc_z-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Hochman, Flickr CC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid presidential candidate debates and national conversations surrounding gun violence and police brutality, issues and positions are often framed as conservative versus liberal (and those are equated with Republican and Democrat, respectively). While we recognize that both parties have moral values that guide their beliefs and support of certain political agendas, a debate must necessarily leave some room for a change of heart. But how can you change an opponent\u2019s mind? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sociologist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.stanford.edu\/people\/robb-willer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robb Willer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one of the authors of a paper published in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/psp.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2015\/10\/06\/0146167215607842.full\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personality and Social Psychology<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is quoted in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/525132\/the-smartest-most-effective-way-to-win-any-political-argument\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quartz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cMorality can be a source of political division, a barrier to building bi-partisan support. But it can also be a bridge if you can connect your position to your audience\u2019s deeply held moral convictions.\u201d Make sure your foe knows the morals behind your position, and they\u2019ll be more likely to give it a careful listen. After all, the rationale for changing their mind&#8212;making the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moral<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> choice&#8212;is already clear.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid presidential candidate debates and national conversations surrounding gun violence and police brutality, issues and positions are often framed as conservative versus liberal (and those are equated with Republican and Democrat, respectively). While we recognize that both parties have moral values that guide their beliefs and support of certain political agendas, a debate must necessarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2058,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[39090,698,3107,39089,3175,39115],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-argument","tag-debate","tag-morality","tag-morals","tag-norms","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/11\/16064489288_5221bd6ccc_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}