Who's More Morally Righteous Than You? (No, We're Not Talking About Them)
We all know them. You know, those blowhards who tell you their kids clean their rooms, or eat anything you put in front of them. Or wash the car after they use it (I'm still waiting for that). Or the politician (we won't name him) who won't have a meal with a female not his wife. But now new research, according to newswise.com, finds that this "holier than thou" or self-righteous behavior really isn't -- big duh! -- the mark of truly "good" people. Studies in the past discovered that people "tend to believe that they are more likely than others to donate blood, give to charity, treat another person fairly, and give up one’s own seat in a crowded bus for a pregnant woman." And usually, if you followed them onto that bus, they won't. Even more astonishing, a widely cited U.S. News and World Report survey asked 1,000 Americans to indicate the likelihood that they and a long list of celebrities would go to heaven. The vast ma