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Moral Offense or Stomachache? How Disgust Shapes our Moral Judgments

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We normally think of morality in terms of people’s basic ethical principles. But experiments with ginger show that there’s more to it than that.

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Does Power Corrupt? How Powerful People React in Moral Dilemmas

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Being in a position of power can influence moral decisions, but not in the way you think.

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Research Shows Biases Against Immigrants with Non-anglicized Names

Using variations of the “trolley-dilemma” where people choose who to save or not save others in a hypothetical situation, social psychologists show that for certain groups, under certain conditions in a hypothetical scenario, having an anglicized name means you’re more likely to be saved than if you kept your original Asian or Arab name.

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