From a new Nature article by Adam M. Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert: Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining. 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 […]

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