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I believe the title should read "Clean Undergrads at Northwestern University Feel Morally Superior." FTA: "Some 58 undergrads were invited to a lab filled with
by cgs1019 16y ago
I believe the title should read "Clean Undergrads at Northwestern University Feel Morally Superior." FTA: "Some 58 undergrads were invited to a lab filled with spotless new equipment." I don't think this sample has any remote chance of being representative of the "People" population.
The "clean" and "dirty" passages used in the follow up studies employ very strong positive and negative words, respectively, and no control group seems to have been used to compare how people make moral judgments after reading very positive or very negative passages irrespective of cleanliness.
This is not even pop science it's trash science. It's dirty, but reading it makes me feel more morally superior, not less, contrary to the conclusion of the "study."