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Liberals and conservatives differ on who counts as a victim

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Everyone shares a similar moral compass about right and wrong, but where liberals and conservatives disagree is about who counts as a victim, according to new research.
The study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin introduces the concept of “assumptions of vulnerability”—people’s beliefs about who is especially susceptible to harm, mistreatment, and victimization—and finds that these assumptions explain why people from the right and left reach such different moral con

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