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12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a theologian & a Carmelite nun. She was murdered in Auschwitz in August of 1942.
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"In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations. Next, we show that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion. Finally, we show how a simple mechanism based on two well-established psychological phenomena (biased exposure to information and biased memory for information) can produce an illusion of moral decline."
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x
The illusion of moral decline - Nature
We show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced, and suggest that this illusion has implications for research on the misallocation of scarce resources, the underuse of social support and social inf…Nature
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I'm Niv Reggev, PI of the Society, Cognition, Motivation, and Brain (SCMB) lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
I work in the field of #SocialCognition, studying #Stereotypes, #PersonPerception, #Memory, and how they all intersect to create #Bias. Also interested in #OpenScience and #BigTeamScience, and using #Neuroscience methods.
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SCMB lab | PI: Niv Reggev | Ben Gurion University of the Negev
We are a team of researchers interested in how social constructs affect the perception and behavior of individuals. We rely on multiple disciplines and methodologies to uncover the basic motivational processes that drive behavior. PI: Niv ReggevSCMB Lab