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The power of common ground

Surprisingly tiny factors can warp our judgments of other people. What can we do about it?

By David DeSteno

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  September 17, 2011

The past decade of psychological research has revealed that much of our moral decision-making, and indeed our deepest moral instincts, are guided less by conscious principles than by feelings and intuitions that can be influenced remarkably easily.

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