Anastasiia Grigorev

suggesting that it is something about women being women that makes people more morally outraged when they're victimized.

Yeah, now one thing that comes with being a female soldier is there is a sense of agency and decision that you chose to enlist in the army.

So there is one factor there.

But relative to sexism is that women who are soldiers tend to really not comply with these traditional gender roles.

They may be viewed as indeed less morally sensible or less refined.

So that raises the question, are they also afforded less moral protection, which may manifest in people feeling less moral outrage when female soldiers are victimized?

Yeah, no, and moral outrage, as you suggest, it's really great from the media point of view because it can really motivate people to engage with the new stories, to share the new stories.

But one thing that we do know about moral outrage is that it's related to spread of misinformation.

Perhaps when you are morally outraged, you actually might be less likely to verify what is it that you're sharing.

But I think another interesting point about moral outrage is that it doesn't necessarily mean that people are going to engage in morally good action.

What we see is that there is a dissociation where people can express moral outrage, but not do anything to actually help the victims.

And actually, the more they express moral outrage, the less likely they are to engage in actionable steps to help the victims.

That's right.

It might backfire.

Yeah, I would hunch that it probably would extend to the countries where there are similar norms, especially that relate to gender.

And we actually know that the United States is...

Comparatively speaking, you know, in the big picture of the world, the United States probably has fewer gendered beliefs relative to some other countries.

And so our hypothesis is that if we go to the countries where the gender role is even more pronounced, we might actually see a greater effect than what we saw here.

Yeah, I think double check your reactions when you are engaging with the content online.

To me, what's really fascinating about this is that these really small rhetorical choices that seemingly really small made by the media can have pretty profound effects on our