Research on foreign policy ideology indicates a two-dimensional structure with clear parallels to numerous dual-process psychological frameworks. In foreign affairs, as in domestic affairs, individual differ in their underlying motivation to both provide and protect, captured by the constructs of cooperative internationalism (CI) and militant internationalism (MI), respectively. Recent studies indicate that the former is associated with the values of self-transcendence (universalism in particular) and individualizing moral foundations, the latter with conservation values and binding moral foundations. CI and MI serve as foreign policy orientations that allow ordinary individuals to develop attitudes about specific foreign policy questions even without significant knowledge but also bias the interpretation of incoming information.

外交政策思想的研究表明了一个二维结构，与许多双重过程的心理框架有着明显的相似之处。在外交事务中，就像在国内事务中一样，个人在提供和保护方面的基本动机是不同的，分别由合作国际主义（CI）和好战国际主义（MI）的构架所捕获。最近的研究表明，前者与自我超越的价值观（特别是普遍主义）和个性化的道德基础有关，后者与保护价值和具有约束力的道德基础相关。CI和MI是外交政策的导向，即使没有大量知识，普通民众也可以对特定的外交政策问题形成态度，但也会偏向对传入信息的解释。