One just needs to Google “torture devices of the Middle Ages” to come out feeling sick to their core. For a large part of human history, torture was commonplace and also viewed as an essential means ...

Review of The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge, Matt Ridley (Harper, 2015), 368 pp., ISBN-10: 0062296000, ISBN-13: 978-0062296009; $18.44. For those whom I convince to buy this book, it is ...

Visual representation of the framework for how the scale and distance afforded by the internet distorts our evolved reactions for compassion for victims and punishment of transgressors in moral ...

I'm editor of the morality section of Evolution: This View of Life magazine, and in this role I recently had the chance to interview Jonathan Haidt, the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership ...

As children develop, they base moral judgments more on people’s intentions than on the outcomes of their actions, according to new research led by Fiery Cushman, assistant professor of cognitive, ...

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 20, No. 4, Special Issue: Moral Objectivity (August 2017), pp. 781-795 (15 pages) Evolutionary debunking arguments (EDAs) purport to show that robust moral ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 14: A person passes frozen turkeys displayed for sale inside a grocery store on November 14, 2022 in New York City. The price of turkeys, a staple for many Americans at ...

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 ...

Americans continue to rate U.S. moral values negatively, on balance, and overwhelmingly agree that they are getting worse. A 47% plurality of Americans currently rate U.S. moral values as "poor," 37% ...

Morality concerns what is right and wrong in the form of obligations toward others. These include both legal obligations as well as obligations of virtue, such as kindness, honesty, and respect, which ...