“Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.”

—  Paul Bloom

From the essay "Toward a Theory of Moral Development," published in the anthology The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, edited by John Brockman

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