How Does Prevalence-Induced Concept Change Change Morality and Ethics?

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LaVary and his team spent a summer creating fake descriptions of studies that ranged from innocuous to unethical. In the same way they had with the dots, subjects rate the studies as either ethical or unethical. For one group, the number of unethical studies in the mix was slowly reduced over time.

In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic, and we succeed, a host of psychological phenomena can mask our progress and make those problems seem intractable -- as if we are only treading water when, in fact, we’ve created the change we set out to make.

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