Psychologists at the University of Toronto have found that we begin to make moral character judgments as early as 12 months ...

Moral development isn’t just about teaching kids rules—it’s about guiding them to think, feel, and act with empathy and fairness. From Piaget’s and Kohlberg’s stages to everyday parenting choices, the ...

A new study looks at how exposure to media content featuring specific moral values (care, fairness, loyalty and authority) might influence the weight kids place on those values. The main study showed ...

It’s easy for us to believe that reasoning about moral issues is the most important aspect of morality. We spend many years in schools that typically foster an intellectual view of life, encourage us ...

How does morality work in the brain? How do we choose between altruism and self-interest? These are questions that the new multidisciplinary FeldmanHall Lab seeks to answer. What started in August ...

Why, exactly, would anything intelligent want to know when a conversation is heading to the bottom? Well, do people really want to know? It’s a social thing, but the big deal here is that it’s also a ...

While social psychology has long been interested in learning more about how one's moral values relate to one's political views, most of the research to date has used quite the same perspective. So far ...