Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Moral psychology — morality as a natural phenomenon — moral judgement, emotion and norms, and their evolution, development and variation across cultures; descriptive, where ethics is normative (group: philosophy; ADR-018).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE-143 v2 | Franklin’s borrowed book: Benjamin Franklin, opposed by a new member of the Pennsylvania Assembly when he stood again as its clerk, asked to borrow a rare book from him rather than courting him, returned it with thanks, and found the man civil and later a friend | The owner’s U1 of the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, read at U2 as a “perspectival invitation”. Documented in Franklin’s Autobiography (LIT-1402; the passage was read in the Project Gutenberg text on 2026-10-23), and the origin of the “Ben Franklin effect”, that doing someone a favour can increase liking for them, tested by Jecker and Landy (LIT-1419). The standing is the anecdote’s, as Franklin told it; the reading is the exchange’s. | Active |
| CASE-146 | Two friendships across a group line: in one, the friend becomes an exception and the person’s view of the friend’s group is unchanged; in the other, what happens with the friend changes how the person takes other members of the group, though the friendships are alike in warmth and in what each learns | From the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, A4 and A5, on the owner’s U4 about intergroup contact. A4: “A prejudiced person can befriend a member of a targeted group while preserving their prejudice toward everyone else. They simply classify the friend as an exception.” A5 drew the two outcomes as “Exception formation” and “Category reorganization”. Held fixed: the friendship and its favourable information. Varied: whether the friend’s conduct is allowed to bear on the category. | Active |
| CASE-147 v2 | Conversation against argument: in Kalla and Broockman’s field experiments, canvassers who exchanged personal narratives nonjudgmentally reduced exclusionary attitudes durably, while arguments alone did not produce comparable effects | Cited at A4 of the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, as “suggestive evidence” for the prediction that cooperative enactment changes attitudes more durably than information. Kalla and Broockman (2020, LIT-1407), registered unread; the description is the exchange’s and the abstract’s, unchecked against the paper. The standing is the study’s, not the reading’s. | Active |