2023 年 33 巻 1 号 p. 15-25
When the focus is on the location of abhorred facilities involving the context of NIMBY (not in my backyard), residents, as the most concerned party, tend to be superiorly ensured legitimate decision-making rights. Such a tendency of judgment is considered a trade-off that benefits for the entire society. We hypothesized that intuitive moral judgments influence this evaluation process. We conducted a survey to compare the legitimacy and trustworthiness among the public organizations, indigenous people, and residents, and to investigate the associations of these factors about the site selection of geological disposal in Ontario, Canada. The results showed that the legitimacy of indigenous people and residents were evaluated higher than that of public organization and their trustworthiness enhanced each legitimacy. Structural equation modeling results revealed negative paths from individualization and positive paths from binding in moral foundations toward sincerity/capability and similarity as determinants of trustworthiness. For indigenous people, this study observed no significant path from moral foundations to legitimacy and trustworthiness. We discussed the effects of moral foundations on the legitimacy and trustworthiness of indigenous people and residents.
