How does morality work in the brain? How do we choose between altruism and self-interest? These are questions that the new multidisciplinary FeldmanHall Lab seeks to answer. What started in August ...

We investigate the relationship between media exposure and audience morality. Specific projects will focus on one of two areas. In the first area, students will assist with quantitative content ...

It’s easy for us to believe that reasoning about moral issues is the most important aspect of morality. We spend many years in schools that typically foster an intellectual view of life, encourage us ...

While social psychology has long been interested in learning more about how one's moral values relate to one's political views, most of the research to date has used quite the same perspective. So far ...

How do moral dispositions come about? A view that many hold is that children learn from the explicit teaching of their caregivers—the rationalizations given by parents for the rewards and punishments ...

Why, exactly, would anything intelligent want to know when a conversation is heading to the bottom? Well, do people really want to know? It’s a social thing, but the big deal here is that it’s also a ...

Putting moral insight back into economics enhances understanding of political outcomes For much of the 20th century, the disciplines of moral psychology and economics were seen as distinct—each ...