People with higher cognitive ability tend to endorse moral values less strongly across the board, according to new research ...

Schaefer says the paper is a first step in the development of a new hypocrisy theory, with future work conducting experiments that allow competing theories of the hypocrisy norm to be measured against ...

Vaccine hesitancy isn’t a moral failure – it’s a property of a system in which people must balance personal and collective interests.

Vaccines and values: How moral foundations theory can help navigate tough conversations. By John Rovers, Drake University & David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Moral injury can occur if someone does or witnesses something that violates their personal moral beliefs. They may feel guilty, ashamed, or angry or feel that they have experienced a betrayal.

There is a big difference between factual statements and statements that express strong emotions or demands (Messerly, 2016). When you claim that something is a fact (for example, "Trees get their ...

And like these prior movements, the moral panic over critical race theory rests on a weak intellectual foundation. No serious analyst doubts that American society is rife with racial inequality.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters takes a look back at Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize speech and considers nonviolence's challenges to just war theory.

In a philosophy class, moral questions take the form of canonical examples like the trolley dilemma. But in real life, ethics shows up much more subtly, in everything from choosing a school for ...