Sex differences in moral judgements across 67 countries

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences • Vol/Iss. 287 • Royal Society • • Published In • Pages: 20201201 •
By Atari, Mohammad, Lai, Mark H., Dehghani, Morteza

Hypothesis

There will be culturally variable sex differences in moral judgments across countries.

Note

While Care, Fairness, and Purity are consistently higher for women; the results for Loyalty and Authority are highly variable and negligible. In summary, not all moral foundations present culturally variable sex differences. The first significance is from Study 1 and the second one from Study 2.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Multi-level and Bayesian analysesPartially supportedp < 0.01UNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Types of Moral FoundationsAssociationEthics
Sex differences in moral judgments AssociationEthics