Table 4 Content description of statistically significant predictors

(Non-)medical profession

- 10-point Likert item ranging from 1 (not at all) to 10 (entirely)

- Wording: “How closely is your professional background related to the field of medicine?”

- Assesses the relatedness of ones’ profession to medicine

Injustice sensitivity [47]

- Measures the psychological characteristic of injustice sensitivity

- Four subscales: victim’s, observer’s, perpetrator’s, and beneficiary’s perspective

- Contributes to explaining social phenomena (e.g. political protest, altruism, moral courage)

- Interindividual differences in how easily one perceives injustice, how strongly one reacts to it

Moral Foundation:

Authority/ subversion [56, 57]

- Underlies leadership and followership (e.g. obedience, deference, respect for traditions)

- At work when people interact with and grant legitimacy to modern institutions such as law courts and police departments and to bosses or respected professionals

- Shaped by our long primate history of hierarchical social interactions

- It helped to forge beneficial relationships within hierarchies; related emotions: respect, fear

Genderism/ transphobia [48]

- Assesses attitudinal and behavioral propensity components of anti-trans prejudice

- Focuses on more severe expressions of prejudicial attitudes (e.g., viewing trans* people as immoral, disgusting, shameful)