A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science examines how expressions of moral outrage on social media are linked to online activism, specifically petition-signing behavior. A ...

When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, all public school students in Colorado were required to start each school day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. No one was exempt. Most of us going ...

I take a “healthy culture” to mean one in which the relationship between books enjoys a certain autonomy. In the minds of readers, books enter conversation with each other in many languages and many ...

Whether or not human beings are genetically inclined toward particular kinds of actions, those dispositions have evolved in the complex web of nature and nurture. That fact makes morality just as ...

Jenny Hocking receives funding from the Australian Research Council. As we enter the final week of the election campaign with its scrappy debates and breathlessly seized “gotcha” moments, the impact ...

In January I attended a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute on the topic of how emotion or repugnance works as a constraint on markets. The discussion was based on the research of ...

Is excessive wealth immoral? Most people do not think so, but members of societies that are more equal and wealthy than average are more likely to believe it is wrong to have too much money. Subscribe ...