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The gender-dependent development of moral exclusiveness

2025-10-08

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<p>Men are more morally exclusive than women. When and how does this difference emerge in human development? Across four samples spanning the ages of 4 to 80 (total n = 1,842), we measure people’s moral exclusiveness toward human outgroups and non-human animals. We identify adolescence (13–18 years) as key: older male adolescents are more morally exclusive than younger male adolescents, while there is no such diff...

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Literature Corpus work: e5f42678-4d44-5000-bae8-71efb1a948b8
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/p4mnw_v1

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