This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Past generations of Americans viewed God as the basis of truth and morality. Not anymore. A new study shows that most ...

One defensive reply from those who favor legalizing and authorizing torture of military detainees is that those of us who oppose it are preening morally or subject to moral vanity. Unfortunately, when ...

Sure, there’s compromise in the give and take between you and others but not just that. There’s compromise within yourself if you have more than one moral standard. To take a simple example, the 10 ...

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The majority's most fundamental vulnerability is its simplistic interpretation of morality whereby one doesn't have to consider context. Most of us claim to embrace unconditional moral rules, a code ...

People gauge others' trustworthiness based on their moral judgments, new research shows. People who are seen as holding to moral absolutes are more trusted and more valued as social partners, the ...

Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior.

Currently I am working on a paper that some of the topics in various threads have touched on, unfortunaely they have steered towards the listed theme so haven't been as usefull to me as a new thread ...