I read it and their methodology is embarassingly bad, especially for the kind of study that can be done en masse so easily (heck, a Twitter poll would be more useful). N=28, where all were undergraduates, and 24 were women. Could easily be influenced by the college campus, location, student housing, etc. It's literally the kind of project you'd do in middle school for a science fair.

Absolutely terrible study. Full paper is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258189192_Spatial_M...

This is always done.

Studies of American college students to prove some sort of universal rule about human psychology.

There’s embarrassing papers that get published in every field but social sciences is where they always try and put a moralistic element in as well.

Sigh.