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ReviewPNAS nexus2024

Morality in the anthropocene: The perversion of compassion and punishment in the online world.

Claire E Robertson, Azim Shariff, Jay J Van Bavel

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Review in PNAS nexus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Claire E RobertsonDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8403-6358
Azim ShariffDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Jay J Van BavelDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2520-0442

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although much of human morality evolved in an environment of small group living, almost 6 billion people use the internet in the modern era. We argue that the technological transformation has created an entirely new ecosystem that is often mismatched with our evolved adaptations for social living. We discuss how evolved responses to moral transgressions, such as compassion for victims of transgressions and punishment of transgressors, are disrupted by two main features of the online context. First, the

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compassionmoralityonline mismatchespunishment and shaming

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PMID38864008
PMCPMC11165651

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