The threat of moral judgment causes people to cooperate better in groups, reveals a new study from Professor of Sociology Robb Willer and two University of South Carolina professors. Although ...

Science is still trying to work out how exactly we reason through moral problems and how we judge others on the morality of their actions.Researchers interested in the neuroscience of morality are ...

How does the average person go about making moral judgments about other people’s behavior in daily life? New research offers some fresh clues about how most of us intuitively make moral judgments ...

Neuroscientists have shown they can influence people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region -- a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality. MIT neuroscientists have ...

Should machines be allowed to make our moral judgments? They are often smarter and less emotional. But when we make a moral choice, is that what we're really looking for? The world is abuzz with ...

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 app to ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We often view moral judgments with suspicion ...

A study published in the March 1 issue of the journal Sleep finds that sleep deprivation impairs the ability to integrate emotion and cognition to guide moral judgments. Research has shown that bad ...

Recent research on morality (e.g., studying moral reasoning with trolley dilemma, footbridge dilemma, or the issues of intention vs. outcome) or on its neurological bases has added new literature in ...

Moral rules are rigid. The 10 Commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament, for example, include unambiguous prohibitions, such as, “Thou shalt not kill.” Similarly, Kant’s categorical imperative is ...

Scientists find that when the area of the brain responsible for understanding the intent of others is disrupted, moral judgment is also affected. Christie Nicholson reports Innocent? Or guilty? As any ...