It’s no secret that people can’t always explain their moral choices. In a phenomenon dubbed “moral dumbfounding,” for example, people will ardently insist on the immorality of sex between consenting ...

This framework reveals why some MAGA-aligned Christians act in ways that contradict Jesus’ teachings.

Two professors, one Christian and one atheist, faced off Friday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a battle over the origin of morals. Professor Steven Pinker of Harvard University, an ...

Dr. DeSteno is a research psychologist who studies religious belief and practice. In a public statement of its intentions for its Claude chatbot, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has said ...

It’s common to have fears about being a “bad person,” but for most people, these are fleeting thoughts and not true fears about being immoral. However, this isn’t the case for people who suffer from a ...

New research shows that moral values predict regional differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates beyond structural, demographic and political barriers to vaccination. Even though COVID-19 vaccines are ...