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The Corruption of Value: Negative Moral Associations Diminish the Value of Money
Jennifer E. Stellar,Robb Willer +1 more
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The authors investigate the possibility that negative moral associations can reduce the desirability and perceived value of money, and that they do so by threatening to contaminate individuals' perceptions of their morality.Abstract:
We investigate the possibility that negative moral associations can reduce the desirability and perceived value of money, and that they do so by threatening to contaminate individuals’ perceptions of their morality. In Study 1, participants filled out fewer raffle tickets to obtain a money prize with immoral associations and perceived it to have less purchasing power than a morally neutral prize. In Study 2, we experimentally manipulated participants’ moral self-image, reasoning that ameliorating moral self-image concerns would make participants less averse to accepting morally tainted money. Consistent with this, participants who recounted a past virtuous act completed more tasks to receive monetary payment with immoral associations than participants who recounted a neutral act. These findings provide experimental evidence that immoral associations reduce the desirability of morally tainted money by threatening to contaminate the recipient’s moral self-image.read more
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Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason.
TL;DR: An overview of the basics of metaphorical thinking and language from the perspective of Neurocognition, the integrated interdisciplinary study of how conceptual thought and language work in the brain is outlined.
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Moral transgressions corrupt neural representations of value
Molly J. Crockett,Jenifer Z. Siegel,Zeb Kurth-Nelson,Zeb Kurth-Nelson,Peter Dayan,Raymond J. Dolan,Raymond J. Dolan +6 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest moral behavior in a task that assesses the financial cost participants ascribe to harming others versus themselves is linked to a neural devaluation of reward realized by a prefrontal modulation of striatal value representations.
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Religiosity and special food consumption: The explanatory effects of moral priorities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine mediation through moral foundations to show that the moral foundation of purity mediates the relationship between religiosity and diet-minded food consumption; in contrast, the foundation of harm/care is unrelated to religiosity but significantly related to sustainably-minded consumption.
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Other People’s Money: Money’s Perceived Purchasing Power Is Smaller for Others Than for the Self
TL;DR: This paper found that the perceived purchasing power of other people's money decreased logarithmically as others' psychological distance from the self increased, consistent with psychological distance's subadditive property.
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Money, moral transgressions, and blame
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
TL;DR: In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity as discussed by the authors, and investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia.
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
TL;DR: In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity as discussed by the authors, and investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia.
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Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral Foundations
TL;DR: Across 4 studies using multiple methods, liberals consistently showed greater endorsement and use of the Harm/care and Fairness/reciprocity foundations compared to the other 3 foundations, whereas conservatives endorsed and used the 5 foundations more equally.
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
TL;DR: Cialdini's "Influence", the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes" - and how to apply these understandings as mentioned in this paper.
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The self-importance of moral identity.
Karl Aquino,Americus Reed +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Haidt et al. measured the associations among the self-importance of moral identity, moral cognitions, and behavior, and the psychometric properties of the measure were assessed through an examination of the underlying factor structure and convergent, nomological and discriminant validity analyses.
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