How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? Why has public opinion in large parts of the world shifted so rapidly in favour of gay and lesbian rights, but been virtually unchanged on other contested issues such as abortion rights? A study from a Swedish team of researchers recently published in the social science journal Nature Human Behaviour answers several critical questions regarding how public opinion changes on moral issues, and have created a scientific model that can predict such public opinion changes.
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Source: Phys.org