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How our morals might politically polarize just about anything

  • Written by Randy Stein, Assistant Professor of Marketing, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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When news breaks about wrongdoings of our favorite politician, the other side inevitably argues that we have a scandal on our hands. We like to think that our superior grasp of logic is what enables us to reason through and reject the other side’s concerns.

But, a series of three studies I recently published...

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