Corporate superstars are often celebrated for their business acumen, innovation, and even edginess. But how often are they congratulated for their moral leadership? Our research shows that morality ...

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 ...

Does an education in everyday ethics really require an understanding of moral philosophy? Jef Safi/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical ...

In this series, we have invited philosophers to write about what they consider to be the greatest moral challenge of our time, and how we should address it. It would be easy to conclude that there’s a ...

The world is increasingly embracing diversity—religious, cultural, and political diversity, for example. Embracing diversity means being more tolerant to differences between individuals and groups, ...

What makes humans moral beings? This is the question that leads off the abstract of a paper by Baumard et al (2013), and certainly one worth considering. However, before one can begin to answer that ...

Morality is not just something that people learn, argues Yale psychologist Paul Bloom: It is something we are all born with. At birth, babies are endowed with compassion, with empathy, with the ...