Changing the ‘psychological distance’ someone feels toward an issue can shift their attitudes in ways that might help people on opposite sides of an issue see more eye to eye.
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A psychological mechanism called ‘motivated reasoning’ helps us justify the ethical burden away.
There are many ways to decide what’s ‘fair’ in a given situation. Which one you prefer may depend on what kind of person you are.
An analysis of billions of words in the Google Books database shows the way society has valued moral principles such as compassion, respect for authority, community values and fairness over time.
Surveys suggest fewer than half of Americans are looking forward to lab-grown meat. A moral psychologist examines common objections and why for the most part they’re not logical.
In ‘Westworld’s’ land of robots, it’s the people who lack humanity.
It’s a common quirk of human psychology to make the mental leap that the way things are is the way things ought to be. New research into how we explain the world around us sheds light on the phenomenon.
If you want to get away with doing something bad, don’t tell anyone until after you’ve done it.
The morality of which animals we can and can’t eat doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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