HDF 304 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Class Discrimination, Developmental Psychology, Availability Heuristic
5 Dec 2017
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Many parents grey up enjoying moments of independent play are now raising children in a world with very different norms. In the us, leaving children unsupervised is grounds for moral outrage and can lead to criminal charges. This may seem to get things the wrong way around, but it is supported by new research available in the open access journal collabra. To get a sense of the experiment they conducted, consider this case: a 2 year-old was found unattended after his parents allegedly left home to play pokemon go: this case generated plenty of moral outrage. The authors of the study answered a few questions for the article: Also intrigued by experimental work in psychology showing that people modify their factual beliefs in response to pressures that are surprising, including bringing those factual beliefs more closely in line with their moral views.
