| Popis: |
In this project, we advance the idea that the current Covid-19 pandemic exerts both a centripetal and a centrifugal force on people’s “moral circle” - defined as a person’s categorical distinction of entities that are (vs. are not) worthy of their moral concern (Crimston, Bain, Hornsey, & Bastian, 2016; Crimston, Hornsey, Bain, & Bastian, 2018; Graham, Waytz, Meindl, Iyer, & Young, 2017; Opotow, 1990, 1993; Singer, 1981). An increasing care for one’s partners, friends, and family during the pandemic suggests a pull toward its smaller and more immediate concentric rings (“kin and tribe;” Graham et al., 2017). At the same time, we witnessed a visible collective compassion with all humanity during the Covid-19 pandemic (e.g., BBC, 2020; Koelbl et al., 2020), suggesting a push from the center of the moral circle to its outermost boundaries. |
