Taking A Shower Improves Moral Judgment

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Taking A Shower Improves Moral Judgment - Scientificblogging.com

The next time you have to make a difficult moral decision, you might think twice about mulling it over in the bath or shower. New research in Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments showing that intuition, rather than deliberate reasoning, can influence our perception of what is right and wrong.

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