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Republicans and Democrats consider each other immoral – even when treated fairly and kindly by the opposition

  • Written by Phillip McGarry, Ph.D. Candidate in Experimental Psychology, University of Tennessee
imageHow a political opponent acted didn't change participants' harsh moral judgments.wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images

Both Republicans and Democrats regarded people with opposing political views as less moral than people in their own party, even when their political opposites acted fairly or kindly toward them, according to experiments mycolleaguesandI...

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