Researchers have validated a technique for studying how people make "moral" decisions when driving, with the goal of using ...

The five moral foundations discussed by Graham et al. (2012) include kin-directed altruism (what they call the harm foundation), mechanisms for dealing with cheaters (fairness), mechanisms for ...

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 ...

Last summer I was at a moral psychology conference in Chile, listening to speaker after speaker discuss research into how people think about sexuality, crime, taxation, and other politically and ...

To put it simply, ethics represents the moral code that guides a person’s choices and behaviors throughout their life. The idea of a moral code extends beyond the individual to include what is ...

What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a moral sense, preferring “helpers” over “hinderers” before uttering their ...

But psychology, and developmental psychology, in particular, is no stranger to replicability concerns (when it is difficult or impossible to reproduce the results of a scientific study).

Researchers who study moral psychology have found that moral judgments often relate to harm. In other words, we may judge something as morally wrong because it’s harmful.

The Kellogg School of Management is pleased to host a summit on Moral Psychology. The summit, jointly organized by faculty members from the Marketing Department and Management & Organizations ...