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 ...
New research suggests that the human mind is disturbingly flexible about moral judgments. An international team led by UCLA anthropology professor Daniel Fessler studied members of seven disparate ...
How does the average person go about making moral judgments about other people’s behavior in daily life? New research offers some fresh clues about how most of us intuitively make moral judgments ...
The act of identifying a perpetrator does not just involve memory and thinking, but also constitutes a moral decision. This is because, by the act of identifying or not identifying someone, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The American Enterprise Institute celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. To commemorate the occasion, The American will periodically revisit some of its scholars’ books and republish some of their ...
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