This article was originally published in MarketWatch on September 26, 2018. Ann Skeet is the senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views expressed are her own ...

If you're bilingual, moral choices can often feel more urgent and emotionally charged in one language yet distant and rational in another. This raises an intriguing question: does language merely ...

Science is still trying to work out how exactly we reason through moral problems and how we judge others on the morality of their actions.Researchers interested in the neuroscience of morality are ...

The threat of moral judgment causes people to cooperate better in groups, reveals a new study from Professor of Sociology Robb Willer and two University of South Carolina professors. Although ...

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 ...

Judgments we make with a moral underpinning are made more quickly and are more extreme than those same judgments based on practical considerations, a new set of studies finds. However, the findings, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT neuroscientists have shown they can influence people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region — a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality. To ...

In a new study, a Florida State University marketing researcher and her colleagues have revealed a complex moral landscape underlying everyday consumption practices, particularly relating to self-care ...

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 ...

Imagine a CEO wants to profit from a venture that, by the way, involves emitting pollution toxic to the environment, but she doesn’t care because the goal is profit. Is the CEO intentionally harming ...

Judgments we make with a moral underpinning are made more quickly and are more extreme than those same judgments based on practical considerations, a new set of studies finds. However, the findings ...