Our lives are surprisingly packed with morally loaded experiences. We see others behaving badly (or well), and we behave well (or badly) ourselves. In a new study, researchers used a smartphone app to ...

Agnieszka Jaroslawska receives funding from the ESRC. People are often forgiven for actions that they would never get permission for in the first place – a phenomenon described as “Stuart’s Law of ...

A fascinating aspect of humanity is that we hold ourselves to a high moral standard. We impose rules on ourselves to protect society from the short-term temptations that might cause us to do things ...

Recent research on morality (e.g., studying moral reasoning with trolley dilemma, footbridge dilemma, or the issues of intention vs. outcome) or on its neurological bases has added new literature in ...

New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of moral judgments, ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State Imagine picking up the morning newspaper and feeling moral outrage at the latest action taken by the ...