From a rational perspective, joining a protest rally is like voting: a complete waste of time. The odds that your voice or your protest sign will make a difference are no better than the odds that ...

Research on moral foundations and political ideology explores how intuitive moral sensitivities shape and reflect ideological commitments. Moral Foundations Theory proposes that human moral reasoning ...

The pharmaceutical industry needs to rehabilitate its image. Moral foundations theory can help. Over the course of a career spent in the industry, I have felt disapproval, mostly from liberal friends ...

The philosopher Peter Boghossian and I are doing a public event together later this week in Budapest. It will be recorded and put on YouTube; I’ll post a link when it’s done. Peter and I were talking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exploring other people's motivations with empathy, respect and curiosity, instead of judgment, is at the core of effective ...

In an increasingly diverse America, weighing the rights of the majority versus the rights of the minority sparks debate and disagreement, both in the realm of theory and in everyday life. Patten, the ...

If you want to understand and explain morality, the first useful step is to be sure you're clear on your definition of morality. This first step has, unfortunately, been a stumbling point for many ...

A study of children’s conversations with their caretakers sheds light on the timeline of the emergence of moral foundation words in the first six years of life in English-speaking children. Moral ...

I post a lot about this Penn State scandal in large part because it offers a way for us to examine critically some important themes in our lives and in our time — especially authority, fidelity, ...

(The Conversation) — The concept of Christian nationalism has taken center stage in many Americans’ minds as either the greatest threat to democracy or its only savior. Political scientist Eric ...

Writing “The Conservative Social Psychologist” blog at Psychology Today since 2016, I have provided timely, valuable analysis of several of President Trump’s speeches using interpretations from ...

What is money, and from where does it draw its value? This is a question Greece is facing as its people stare into the abyss. Our turn will come. We are not the first to wonder. The 19th century ...