...-reinforcing feedback loop. We will ultimately suggest that much of the recent hysteria concerning danger to unsupervised children is the product of this feedback loop, in which inflated estimates of risk lead to a new moral norm against leaving children alone, and then the need to justify moral condemnation...

.../ . moral psychology risk perception moral norms A correction article relating to this publication can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/collabra.58 . In each of six experiments, we invited participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk to read brief vignettes in which a child spends...