How to Talk to People: ‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths
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The Importance of Moral Decline
In a new study, researchers found that when people talk about moral decline, it doesn't matter how young they are. People think the decline began when they came on this earth and only goes down after you're born. Adam Sobel: This is a bias of people's memory because you don't have memories from before you were born. It would make sense if this is a memory that turns on sometime near the moment of your birth but not necessarily why we see this for what we do now.
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