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Malcolm Ryan from Macquarie University speaks about his study that shows how suggestible we can be if a game's morality meter tries to nudge us in a certain direction... provided certain conditions are met beforehand.

Even when players think they're ignoring the morality meter, the results say different!

Read the study here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15554120211017040

Play the game, The Great Fire, here: https://moralityplay.itch.io/the-great-fire

Ryan et al's paper on the four-component model of moral psychology can be found here: https://press.etc.cmu.edu/file/download/924/b557cd42-6151-4ecf-a8f8-d2c18bdfd27c

Follow Malcolm Ryan's work at Morality Play:
https://moralityplay.org/

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