‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths
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The Effects of Demographics on Morality
People who self identified as more conservative perceived more decline over time than the people who self-identified as liberal. Even liberals said that people are less kind today than they were 10 years ago, 20 years or whatever point in the past. The only other demographic difference that we found was an ideological one,. A majority of people will say more today than in the past but if you ask them, are people more or less kind today, they'll go less kind.
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