Study examines nature of self-righteousness
From the University of Chicago Booth School of Business press release: Research finds that people tend to believe that they are more likely than others to donate blood, give to charity,… Read more »
From the University of Chicago Booth School of Business press release: Research finds that people tend to believe that they are more likely than others to donate blood, give to charity,… Read more »
From the Frontiers press release: When top athletes cheat it makes headline news. Retaliating badly to a foul, faking an injury, or deliberately harming an opponent can all result in… Read more »
From the North Carolina State University press release: A recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) finds that “moral enhancement technologies” —… Read more »
From the UC Berkeley press release: People may instinctively know right from wrong, but determining if someone has good moral character is not a black and white endeavor. According to… Read more »
From the University College London press release: The brain responds less to money gained from immoral actions than money earned decently, reveals a new UCL-led study. The research, published in… Read more »
From the Harvard University press release: Imagine you’re getting hungry at work and you see a candy bar on a co-worker’s desk. Why not just eat it while she’s out… Read more »
From the University of Helsinki press release: Every person has both utilitarian (consequentialist) and Kantian (duty- or rule-based) moral intuitions, which are activated in different situations in different ways. The… Read more »
From the Penn State press release: When people scan the latest political headlines or watch a video from a war-ravaged land, they tend to feel snap ethical or moral responses… Read more »
From the Canadian Medical Association Journal media release: Offering medical assistance in dying to people in Canada on the basis of psychiatric illnesses could put vulnerable people at risk, argues a… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: As Descartes famously noted, there’s no way to really know that another person has a mind — every mind we observe is,… Read more »
