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SUBMITTER: Grubbs JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6795490 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grubbs Joshua B JB Warmke Brandon B Tosi Justin J James A Shanti AS Campbell W Keith WK
PloS one 20191016 10
Public discourse is often caustic and conflict-filled. This trend seems to be particularly evident when the content of such discourse is around moral issues (broadly defined) and when the discourse occurs on social media. Several explanatory mechanisms for such conflict have been explored in recent psychological and social-science literatures. The present work sought to examine a potentially novel explanatory mechanism defined in philosophical literature: Moral Grandstanding. According to philos ...[more]