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Moral judgments quicker, more extreme than practical ones, but also flexible

November 29, 2012 by

Judgments we make with a moral underpinning are made more quickly and are more extreme than those same judgments based on practical considerations, a new set of studies finds. However, the findings also show that judgments based on morality can be readily shifted and made with other considerations in mind.

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