Mr. Beat briefly explains moral panics. Perhaps this is obvious, but please be aware that media did not influence the ...

This is the key distinction, then: moral conscience (regulating one’s own behavior) does not appear to straightforwardly explain moral condemnation (regulating the behavior of others). Despite this, ...

Every day we encounter circumstances we consider wrong: a starving child, a corrupt politician, an unfaithful partner, a fraudulent scientist. These examples highlight several moral issues, including ...

I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in ...

The argument for individual conscience: Only a deep internal exploration can distinguish between right and wrong, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral, virtue and sin, honor and disgrace, etc.

Dr. DeSteno is a research psychologist who studies religious belief and practice. In a public statement of its intentions for its Claude chatbot, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has said ...

In the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito placed the question of abortion morality at the center of abortion politics and unleashed the literal tyranny of ...

New research shows that moral values predict regional differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates beyond structural, demographic and political barriers to vaccination. Even though COVID-19 vaccines are ...