Natalie Norman

It informs who we choose to surround ourselves with.

And so it can really shape our social environments.

And there's a lot of research out there that

moral information more than other kinds of information even.

So information like, for instance, how smart someone is or how competent they are or how warm they are.

Moral information can kind of be prioritized even over information like that when it comes to making and forming impressions of other people.

Absolutely.

And so the research that we did is kind of about we come across so many different social behaviors in our day-to-day lives.

So things that we hear about other people, things that we see other people doing, things that our friends are doing, our family, us, things that we're reading about online.

And a lot of these have moral weight to them.

things where we think somebody who does something is a better person because they've done that thing, or if they don't do something, they choose not to, they're a worse person because of it.

And so the kind of question that we sort of started this whole research based on was, do some types of moral behaviors really stick in our minds more than others?

Do we remember some of them more?

Do some of them

So social research has kind of been digging into different categories of moral behavior for a long time.

And so in the research, it's referred to as moral domains.

And so these domains kind of refer to the different aspects of our social life, right?

And what moral domains really exist and are out there kind of changes a little bit depending on the work, the body of research that you're looking at.

But a lot of them pop up again and again and again as moral and having some sort of moral weight to them.

And so these are things like, for instance, helping family.