Purity is still a problem Article Swipe
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Nicholas DiMaggio
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Kurt Gray
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Frank Kachanoff
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YOU?
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· 2025
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.17615/8fzt-bf20
· OA: W4416049779
YOU?
·
· 2025
· Open Access
·
· DOI: https://doi.org/10.17615/8fzt-bf20
· OA: W4416049779
Our recent review demonstrates that "purity" is a messy construct with at least nine popular scientific understandings. Cultural beliefs about self-control help unify some of these understandings, but much messiness remains. The harm-centric theory of dyadic morality suggests that purity violations can be comprehensively understood as <em>abstract harms</em>, acts perceived by some people (and not others) to indirectly cause suffering.
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