This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We often view moral judgments with suspicion ...

North Augusta mother Debra Harrell, who had let her nine-year-old child play at a nearby park while working, was recently arrested. Who is able to condemn this mother? On what grounds? Psychologists ...

Moral rules are rigid. The 10 Commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament, for example, include unambiguous prohibitions, such as, “Thou shalt not kill.” Similarly, Kant’s categorical imperative is ...

Psychologists at the University of Toronto have found that we begin to make moral character judgments as early as 12 months ...

Recent research on morality (e.g., studying moral reasoning with trolley dilemma, footbridge dilemma, or the issues of intention vs. outcome) or on its neurological bases has added new literature in ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Finding examples of moral hypocrisy is just too easy, what with Eliot Spitzer (former New York governor, moralizing ...

Americans’ attitudes about self-expression, morality, individuality, and religious practice continue to vary widely across generations. There also continue to be significant differences between men ...

Our lives are surprisingly packed with morally loaded experiences. We see others behaving badly (or well), and we behave well (or badly) ourselves. In a new study, researchers used a smartphone app to ...

To what degree does Barack Obama or Donald Trump influence your moral judgment? Does a murder abroad carry the same moral weight as one committed at home? Philosophers and psychologists studying moral ...

Views writer Logan Walters argues intuition, not logic, shapes meat consumption, making moral arguments for veganism largely ...