John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is often treated as a fully formed philosophical monument, a sudden intervention that ...

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

A lot of people feel distress about their porn use, but the reasons aren’t always what they seem. We can understand the ...

Putting moral insight back into economics enhances understanding of political outcomes For much of the 20th century, the disciplines of moral psychology and economics were seen as distinct—each ...

As an undergraduate psychology major at Pennsylvania State University, Larisa Solomon had an observation that seemed to her to reflect something profound about human psychology, but that psychology ...

The mental health world has a term for psychological distress that happens when your values are violated. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Christina Caron When Jennifer S. Wortham was a teenager, ...

What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a moral sense, preferring “helpers” over “hinderers” before uttering their ...

How would you describe a member of the opposite political party? Maybe you find them “annoying” or even “stupid.” Or you might call them “bigoted” or “immoral.” Americans are deeply politically ...

Imagining what might have been • Intuitive theories fuel our explicit beliefs National elections put a country’s moral compass to the test, tasking its people to elect a leader that most closely ...

I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the ...