Moral outrage porn can lead to inaction. Once you express moral outrage, you kind of feel like you're done. And i think that the similarity that it might have to these other kindslike power washing porn, i'm vicariously sensing fulfilment. My intuition is that moral outrage in the poorny sense is you're less clear that you have actually done nothing. I may have just incited somebody else to to express outrage and then do nothing. You're not actually trying to fix the problems. After you've posted on facebook, youre condemnatory thing that will only reach everybody who already agrees with you. That's a quick and easy way to get you inflamed without
Is social psychology just a kid dressing up in grown-up science clothes? Are the methods in social psychology--hypothesis-driven experiments and model-building--appropriate for the state of the field? Or do these methods lead to a narrowing of vision, stifled creativity, and a lack of informed curiosity about the social world> David and Tamler discuss the strong methodological critique of psychology from two of its leading practitioners - Paul Rozin and Solomon Asch.
Plus, food porn, real estate porn, outrage porn, and David's personal favorite - power washing porn.
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