Rob Henderson @robkhenderson Every 6 months my mind returns to this heatmap indicating that conservatives devote the majority of their empathy and care to family and friends and liberals devote most of their concern to plants, trees, and inert entities such as rocks. nature.com/articles/s4146... ervatives 12 0 Libera:edure. All participants completed a moral allocation task, in which part s allocated 100 "moral units" among the following 16 categories, picture easingly large concentric circles (see full depiction of task in Supplementa 4): all of your immediate family; all of your extended family; all of your cl ds; all friends including more distant friends; all acquaintances; all peopl have ever met; all people in your country; all people on your continent; eople on all continents; all mammals on all continents; all hibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds; all animals on earth includin mecia and amoebae; all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms g things in the universe including plants and trees; all natural things in 1 erse including inert entities such as rocks; all things in existence. Particip the following instructions: n this section, we would like to think about your capacity to help, to give o be charitable, to show empathy, and to be generous-in other words our capacity to behave morally. We can think about people having lifferent amounts of moral units-like currency-that they can spend or others and can allocate to different moral circles. Some people devote all o heir moral units to one circle whereas others try to divide up their mora inits amongst multiple circles. Again, by moral circle, we mean the circle o people or other entities in which you are concerned about right and wrong lone toward them. oral allocation by ideology, Study 3a. Source data are provided as a Source Dave also explained to participants that these categories were non-overlapp and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are d that giving to one category (e.g., extended family) would not include an nded family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including sive category (e.g., immediate family). Participants completed two iteration e ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (task (order randomized). In one, they were asked to allocate moral units , mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia an should ideally divide them. In the other, they were asked to divide them as > all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural tonally do so in their daily lives. These allowed us to assess differences bet al and ideal moral allocation, but no meaningful differences emerged. T existence 4:07 AM • May 7, 2023 529.6K Views

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The Procedure for the "Moral Circles" Study

Procedure All participants completed a moral allocation task, in which participants allocated 100 "moral units" among the following 16 categories, pictured as increasingly large concentric circles (see full depiction of task in Supplementary Note 4): all of your immediate family; all of your extended family; all of your closest friends; all friends including more distant friends; all acquaintances; all people you have ever met; all people in your country; all people on your continent; all people on all continents; all mammals on all continents; all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds; all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae; all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms; all living things in the universe including plants and trees; all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks; all things in existence. Participants read the following instructions: In this section, we would like to think about your capacity to help, to give, to be charitable, to show empathy, and to be generous—in other words, your capacity to behave morally. We can think about people having different amounts of moral units -like currency—that they can spend on others and can allocate to different moral circles. Some people devote all of their moral units to one circle whereas others try to divide up their moral units amongst multiple circles. Again, by moral circle, we mean the circle of people or other entities in which you are concerned about right and wrong done toward them. We also explained to participants that these categories were non-overlapping such that giving to one category (e.g., extended family) would not include an inclusive category (e.g., immediate family). Participants completed two iterations of this task (order randomized). In one, they were asked to allocate moral units how one should ideally divide them. In the other, they were asked to divide them as they personally do so in their daily lives. These allowed us to assess differences between actual and ideal moral allocation, but no meaningful differences emerged. The categories allowed us to create composite moral allocation scores for humans only (average of units allocated to the first nine categories) and for nonhumans (average of units allocated to the last seven categories). In addition, participants also completed a more qualitative measure of the extent of their moral circle by clicking on rungs extending outward and representing the same categories as in the moral allocation task (see Supplementary Note 4). This measure allowed us to create heatmaps to visualize the relative sizes of liberals' and conservatives' moral circles. This task was also counterbalanced in presentation with the moral allocation task, and no order effects emerged.

Moral Circles Study With Additional Context

Proportion Finally, we assessed the heatmaps generated by participants' clicks on the rung they felt best represented the extent of their moral circle. These qualitative results also demonstrated that liberals (individuals who selected 1, 2, or 3 on the ideology measure) selected more outer rungs, whereas conservatives (individuals who selected 5, 6, or 7 on the ideology measure) selected more inner rungs (see Fig. 5). Overall, these results suggest conservatives' moral circles are more likely to encompass human beings, but not other animals or lifeforms whereas liberals' moral circles are more likely to include nonhumans (even aliens and rocks) as well. Study 3a revealed these patterns also when asking about participants' ideal moral circles. This suggests that both liberals and conservatives, although differing in their moral allocations, feel that their pattern of allocation is the ideal way to adjudicate moral concern in the world. Fig. 5. Conservatives 12 0 Liberals Open in a new tab Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. Note. The highest value on the heatmap scale is 20 units for liberals, and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are described as follows: (1) all of your immediate family, (2) all of your extended family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including distant ones), (5) all of your acquaintances, (6) all people you have ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (9) all people on all continents, (10) all mammals, (11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae, (13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms, (14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks, (16) all things in existence One caveat to Study 3a is that we constrained the number of units that participants could assign to each group, forcing participants to distribute moral concern in a zero-sum fashion (i.e., the more concern they allocate to one circle, the less they can allocate to another circle). Although research suggests that people indeed do distribute empathy and moral concern in a zero-sum fashion24-26, this feature of Study 3a imposes an artificial constraint. Therefore, to examine whether a similar pattern would emerge without this constraint, we conducted Study 3b to test whether the effect would replicate using unlimited units. Study 3b is a conceptual replication of Study 3a, allowing participants unlimited moral units to distribute to various circles. Conservatism was positively correlated with the human allocation proportion score only, r (261) = 0.14, p = 0.025, and hence negatively with the nonhuman allocation proportion score (for means, see Fig. 6). A multiple regression using the human allocation proportion score as an outcome variable with political ideology, age, gender, and education as predictor variables revealed the same significant effect for political ideology (see Table 1). Thus, even when participants' allocations were not constrained, the same pattern replicated such that liberals distribute empathy toward broader circles and conservatives distribute empathy toward smaller circles. Fig. 6. 1.00 0.75 0.50 0.25 0.00 Very liberal Liberal Slightly liberal Moderate Slightly conservative' Conservative .. Very conservative" -Humans -Nonhumans Open in a new tab Proportion of moral allocation by ideology, Study 3b. Error bars represent standard errors, solid lines indicate means. Source data are provided as a Source Data file Importantly, in addition to examining proportion, we also examined total allocation, and allocation to humans and to nonhumans. Liberals and conservatives did not differ such that political ideology was not significantly correlated with total allocation to all targets, r (261) = 0.04, p = 0.51, total allocation to humans, r (261) = 0.04, p = 0.50, or total allocation to nonhumans, r (261) = 0.04, p = 0.51 (this pattern of the results was the same when excluding the one participant whose allocations fell outside of 3SD of the mean; see below). Separate multiple regressions using these total allocation scores as outcome variables with political ideology, age, gender, and education as predictor variables revealed the same nonsignificant effects for political ideology (see Table 1). Again, these findings demonstrate that liberals and conservatives differ not in the total amount of moral regard per se but rather they differ in their patterns of how they distribute their moral regard. 20

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Conservatives શરીર S6 Liberals P 0 12 0 20 0 Fig. 5 Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. Note. The highest value on the heatmap scale is 20 units for liberals, and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are described as follows: (1) all of your immediate family, (2) all of your extended family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including distant ones), (5) all of your acquaintances, (6) all people you have ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (9) all people on all continents, (10) all mammals, (11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae, (13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms, (14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks, (16) all things in existence

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