This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I am a faithful book buyer and an omnivorous ...

Though 87% of scientists believe that human activity causes climate change, only half of the general population shares this view, according to a well-known Pew Research Center report. On the issue of ...

IT is a little curious that there is not a single science in which man is constitutionally, and therefore directly interested, to which Emanuel Kant has not, in one way or another, written a Prol ...

Moral realism persists due to deep-seated human intuitions, not objective facts. Moral language fuels culture wars by turning ...

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How does competition influence moral behavior? Studies have so far found evidence for both a negative and a positive influence of competition on moral behavior. Researchers from Innsbruck, Vienna, ...

Few would begrudge scientists pride in the incredible achievements of their discipline. But many people do resent the ways in which these achievements have encouraged certain of their number to launch ...

Simply telling people that their opinions are based on morality will make them stronger and more resistant to counterarguments, a new study suggests. Simply telling people that their opinions are ...

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Daily life is peppered with moral decisions. Some are so automatic that they fail to register—like holding the door for a mother struggling with a stroller, or resisting a passing urge to elbow the ...

In an interesting piece about the independence of morality and religion, my fellow Psychology Today blogger Gad Saad rightly reports that many religious people believe that morality is an example of ...