New Yorker Caption Contest - Are You High in Moral Identity?

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In the first study, participants were manipulated into having a high moral identity. In this next study, they were measured simply on how high, sort of as a trait, as a personality trait, how high they were in moral identity. And they had everybody generate humorous captions, like a caption contest. They found that participants who are high in moral identity were less likely to create captions that involve moral violations.

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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