>“Collectively, these findings provide support for an account of moral grandstanding that conceptualises it as a status-seeking behaviour that is driven by stat

>“Collectively, these findings provide support for an account of moral grandstanding that conceptualises it as a status-seeking behaviour that is driven by status-seeking motives,” and that could explain some of the problems with social discourse, especially on social media, the team writes. It gives me hope to see researchers starting to tackle this social phenomenon. Now that there is a foothold on some scientific results, maybe we can finally start to take it seriously and influence behavior. IG's experimenting with removing likes seems to be a step in that direction. Hopefully there will be more initiatives like this.