Think you are a moral person? Research shows that we are often prone to act immorally when we think we're moral.
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Articles on Morals
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While people often want to cheat in certain cases if it would benefit them, they also want to think of themselves as honest. Here are three steps to stay honest while filing taxes.
Imagine being one of the last few people alive. Would that make it ok to destroy the natural world? This thought experiment reveals the true value of nature, beyond the benefits to humans.
Schools have a duty to teach children morality, but which moral values should they teach?
Robots have already learned to cheat when playing games. How do we teach them morals if we want them more involved in our everyday lives?
Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu embraces everything noble in Aristotelian virtue ethics and African philosophical systems alike.
Shortages negatively affecting ability to care for patients
A new study suggests that distorted moral cognition is what set terrorists apart from the rest of us.
South Africa celebrates Freedom Day this week amid growing discontent over misrule by President Zuma and the ANC. This has led to increased calls for ethical and caring leaders.
Some youths find in gangs the love and social standing that's missing in their home lives.
Most of us keep tabs on other people's wrongdoings but suffer from 'ethical amnesia' when it comes to our own missteps.
Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions? Or might it force us to think more critically about them?
The majority of parents in the UK believe social media harms their children's moral development.
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.
We tend instinctively to value human lives over non-human ones. But is there a point where the scales might tip the other way?
A new study reveals that we are more likely to trust people who follow simple moral rules – or at least give moral problems some serious thought.
It helps society function when people punish selfish acts, even at a personal cost. A new theory suggests third-party punishment also confers some benefits on the punisher.
For human groups to grow from small, intimate communities to the huge interconnected societies we know now, people needed to be willing to cooperate with strangers. Religion might have played a big role.
Considerations of the moral case for coal must do far more than consider whether cheap fossil energy will lift people out of poverty. It must consider the pollution and harm to nature that come with it.
The latest Disney shows just how far psychology has come since the moralisers of the 19th century.
Top contributors
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Psychology, University of Westminster
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PhD Student, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lecturer, The Cairnmillar Institute, La Trobe University
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Professor of Philosophy of Education, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Social Psychology, Lancaster University
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Reader in History, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture, University of British Columbia
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Yale University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Morality and Social Psychology, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
