California’s moral superiority complex
California’s moral superiority complex
- September 29, 2016
- Research by social scientists Ashley Thomas (cog sci), Barbara Sarnecka (cog sci) and Kyle Stanford (LPS) via American Spectator, Sept. 29, 2016
Skenazy pointed to a recent University of California, Irvine study confirming that overreactions are commonplace, “despite evidence that American children are safer than ever.” The study also found Americans have “consistently increased our estimates of the amount of danger facing children left alone in order to better justify or rationalize the moral disapproval we feel toward parents who violate this relatively new social norm.”
For the full story, please visit http://spectator.org/californias-moral-superiority-complex/.
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