Thursday, October 25, 2018

Moral Outrage Can Help Drive Social Change

While outrage is often seen as an obstacle in the path to civil debate, in a new study a team of psychologists suggests that moral outrage — anger at the violation of one’s own moral standards — may be an important catalyst for people to take part in long-term collective action.

For their analysis, the researchers from Pennsylvania State University looked over a variety of studies investigating the dynamics of outrage. They presented their new findings in the journal Trends in...


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