A few years back, many politicians were raising the alarm about the dangers of "CRT" in schools. Today, the new risk to ...

Morality is not just something that people learn, argues Yale psychologist Paul Bloom: It is something we are all born with. At birth, babies are endowed with compassion, with empathy, with the ...

Understanding the origins of morality, like all behavioral traits, requires an evolutionary perspective, taking into account both biological and cultural evolution. I find it helpful to simplify this ...

I'm editor of the morality section of Evolution: This View of Life magazine, and in this role I recently had the chance to interview Jonathan Haidt, the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership ...

<I>NOTE: This is an attempt at starting a topic via a neutral originating post.</I><BR><BR>An oft-asked question is, "whence comes morality?" Is it handed down by a Divine Being of some sort? Is it a ...

Judaism’s moral ideas did not remain confined to one people. They shaped Christianity, Islam, Western law, and global ethical ...

Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes think, feel, strategize, pass down culture and act on moral sentiments – and that humans are not ...