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Record W4409838428 · doi:10.1111/soc4.70063

Moral Language and Political Polarisation: An Overview

2025· article· en· W4409838428 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Sze-Yuh Nina Wang

Bibliographic record

VenueSociology Compass · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicPsychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPoliticsSociologyEpistemologySocial scienceEnvironmental ethicsPolitical sciencePhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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ABSTRACT With rising levels of political polarisation leading to increasing hostility and legislative stalemates, understanding the psychological mechanisms that underlie and exacerbate this polarisation is more critical than ever. Increasing moral divides may contribute to high levels of polarisation, particularly increases in affective polarisation whereby partisans not only disagree with each other's views, but have increasingly negative emotions like dislike and distrust toward members of the opposing side. As political identities become more enmeshed with moral values and group identity processes, compromise and bipartisanship become increasingly difficult. Research on the moral language used in political contexts suggests that moral rhetoric may have important behavioural consequences, particularly in social media contexts where using moral language may garner greater attention and engagement.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0070.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.160
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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