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Beliefs about bad people are volatile

Volume: 2, Issue: 10, Pages: 750 - 756
Published: Sep 7, 2018
Abstract
People form moral impressions rapidly, effortlessly and from a remarkably young age1–5. Putatively ‘bad’ agents command more attention and are identified more quickly and accurately than benign or friendly agents5–12. Such vigilance is adaptive, but can also be costly in environments where people sometimes make mistakes, because incorrectly attributing bad character to good people damages existing relationships and discourages forming new...
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Title
Beliefs about bad people are volatile
Published Date
Sep 7, 2018
Volume
2
Issue
10
Pages
750 - 756
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