Psychology has traditionally distinguished between the moral norms associated with individual rights and the social conventions associated with good manners and respect for others. However, the crisis caused by COVID-19 is generating a displacement in the moral status of these two types of norms by enhancing the importance of community-related norms. The new Moral Foundations Theory helps explain these changes.
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