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Ethics

Everything on this site about ethics — each one naming the study behind it.

You feel less guilty when you choose inaction.
Humans assign more moral weight to active harm than passive neglect.…
You judge inaction more leniently than harmful action.
The omission bias is the tendency to view harmful inaction as less morally wrong than harmful action with the same out…
You subconsciously blame victims to preserve your sense of order.
The just-world hypothesis is the tendency to believe that people get what they deserve, even in cases of random misfor…
You only cheat when you can justify it to yourself.
A 2008 study found that participants were less likely to cheat when asked to recall the Ten Commandments, but cheated …