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Lay theories of moral progress

2024-07-10

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<p>Many consider the world to be morally better today than it was in the past and expect moral improvement to continue. How do people explain what drives this change? In this paper, we identify two ways people might think about how moral progress occurs: that it is driven by human action (i.e., if people did not actively work to make the world better, moral progress would not occur) or that it is driven by an unsp...

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53f2b964-5a0c-50c4-8399-532c51e567fa
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10.31234/osf.io/bhnuw
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