http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/moral-bias-as-g.html Overcoming Bias is economist Robin Hanson’s blog, on honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting, and the far future. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/moral-bias-as-g.html#comment-416508 TGGP Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:50:46 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/08/moral-bias-as-group-glue.html#comment-416508 </u></u>All more confirmation my belief that morality is a big distraction.</u></u> All more confirmation my belief that morality is a big distraction.

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/moral-bias-as-g.html#comment-416507 conchis Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:18:41 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/08/moral-bias-as-group-glue.html#comment-416507 The second finding seems related to the claims made <a href="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ingroup.htm" rel="nofollow">in this article</a>, that the things that motivate group identity are related to trust and security (rather than being "better than" other groups). Unfortunately though, the connection to ingroup bias demonstrated here appears to contradict claims in the article that ingroup identity need not be associated with conflict with or devaluation of other groups. The second finding seems related to the claims made in this article, that the things that motivate group identity are related to trust and security (rather than being “better than” other groups). Unfortunately though, the connection to ingroup bias demonstrated here appears to contradict claims in the article that ingroup identity need not be associated with conflict with or devaluation of other groups.

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