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    Libertarians scored lower than both liberals and conservatives on measures of moral identity and moral traits being essential to their self-concept. A study of over 700 participants found that libertarians reported less interest in being seen as possessing common moral traits, as measured by the Moral Identity Scale and its internal and symbolic subscales, replicating results found in another scale measuring moral self-relevance.

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    Libertarians scored lower than both liberals and conservatives on measures of moral identity and moral traits being essential to their self-concept. A study of over 700 participants found that libertarians reported less interest in being seen as possessing common moral traits, as measured by the Moral Identity Scale and its internal and symbolic subscales, replicating results found in another scale measuring moral self-relevance.

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    Libertarians have a convergent pattern on the Moral Identity Scale as on the GoodSelf Scale

    In the paper, we show that libertarians report moral traits as less essential to their
    self-concept, according to results on the Good-Self Scale. The Moral Identity Scale
    (Aquino & Reed, 2002) is similar to the Good-Self scale in that it also measures moral
    self-relevance or identity. In this measure, participants are asked to imagine a person who
    possesses certain traits (e.g. generous) and whether they would want to be similar to this
    person. The Moral Identity scale was completed by 774 participants (447 men; 446
    liberals, 109 conservatives, and 127 libertarians).
    The figure below shows that libertarians also scored substantially lower than both
    liberals and conservatives on overall moral identity, as well as both the internal and
    symbolic subscales. The results essentially replicate the pattern found on the Modified
    Good-Self scale with libertarians expressing less interest in being characterized as having
    common moral traits.

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