Contact, moral foundations or knowledge? What predicts attitudes towards women who undergo IVF

Table 2 Hierarchical regression with contact (Step 1), moral foundations (Step 2), and knowledge about IVF procedure (Step 3) predicting an attitude towards a woman who underwent IVF

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Variable	β	t	β	t	β	t
Contact^a	0.06	1.83	0.08	2.45*	0.06	1.79
Moral foundations
Care/harm			0.26	5.71***	0.20	4.47***
Fairness/cheating			0.16	3.33**	0.14	2.95**
Loyalty/betrayal			−0.04	−0.70	0.01	0.13
Authority/subversion			−0.01	−0.26	0.01	0.21
Sanctity/degradation			−0.23	−5.00***	−0.21	−4.48***
Knowledge about IVF (test score)					0.22	6.10***
R² (adjusted R)	.004 (.003)		.149 (.143)		.186 (.179)
ΔR			.145		.037

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