More on Moral Radii: The Circle Collapses

[lhynard]

Directly continuing from Thursday's late entry, what causes the moral circle to shrink?

Social psychologists have long studied this phenomenon, and I've referred to a few of these experiments in a past entry.[1]

Bloom listed the following (with the exception of conformity, which I have added):

distance -- We are less likely to treat people

Comments

[saizai]

This sounds rather like empathy, which is what I intend to research.

(I don't believe "morally" is appropriate though; that's a very loaded term.)

[lhynard]

This sounds rather like empathy, which is what I intend to research.

how cool!

[saizai]

FWIW, check academic_empath; you may enjoy my post there (of a couple years ago) summarizing the current neural theory of empathy.