95 - The Psychology of the Moral Circle
Philosophical Disquisitions
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Do You Have a Scale of Mind Attribution?
The study was conducted rely on line. Participants literally dragged with their mouths on each of those a, verbal descriptions of the entities into one of those four circles for categorization purposes. Over all, about a third of our sample ended up being rized as tree huggers. So it does seem like there's a fairly substantial number of people who do value nature over out groups. Also, as predicted, these tree huggers were relatively higher than human lovers in both anthropomorphism and dehumanization. And so that suggests also that when youare looking at just kind of aggregate pictures of moral expansiveness, you might be missing out on some more granular patterns how people are attributing relative moral
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