The illusion of moral decline¶
Mastroianni, & Gilbert. (2023). The illusion of moral decline. Nature.
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- Declinism
- Survey research consistently finds majorities in most decades and most countries reporting that morals, schools, crime, manners, or the economy have worsened — including in periods when the relevant measured indicators improved — and older respondents systematically place their own era of youth at a higher peak than contemporaneous data from that period support
This sourceCross-national survey evidence that people in at least 60 nations have believed morality is declining for at least 70 years, while contemporaneous reports of current morality did not decline.
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“Participants in the foregoing studies believed that morality has declined, and they believed this in every decade and in every nation we studied.”
- Survey research consistently finds majorities in most decades and most countries reporting that morals, schools, crime, manners, or the economy have worsened — including in periods when the relevant measured indicators improved — and older respondents systematically place their own era of youth at a higher peak than contemporaneous data from that period support
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