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What motivates moral outrage?

  • Written by Zachary K. Rothschild, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowdoin College

When 109 travelers entering the United States were detained by an executive order blocking citizens from seven Muslim majority countries, tens of thousands of Americans gathered all over the country to voice their anger. The policy had little to no direct effect on the protesters themselves.

Similarly, more than four decades after Roe v. Wade, the...

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