From the course: Difficult Conversations about Politics at Work

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Focus on values, not ideology

Focus on values, not ideology

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Focus on values, not ideology

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- [Instructor] We need to learn to distinguish between a political position and the values that explain the position. This is really tough to do, because our political positions might be so far apart that it doesn't even seem like there's any common ground. But here's the thing. If you utilize genuine curiosity, you can discover why somebody believes what they believe, and usually it comes from some kind of underlying value. Moral foundations theory is a branch of political psychology that helps us to understand the underlying beliefs behind somebody's political ideology. I believe that it gives us a great starting point to begin to understand why people believe what they believe. We can think of these six moral foundations as clues that we can use to determine the origins of the beliefs of the person that we're talking to. So let me read off the six moral foundations and then give brief descriptions for all of them. So…

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