My 12-year-old son couldn't remember the phrase "take a walk down memory lane" last week, instead describing a stroll through "nostalgia road." I knew it would come in handy. It seems like yesterday ...

Sure, there’s compromise in the give and take between you and others but not just that. There’s compromise within yourself if you have more than one moral standard. To take a simple example, the 10 ...

One defensive reply from those who favor legalizing and authorizing torture of military detainees is that those of us who oppose it are preening morally or subject to moral vanity. Unfortunately, when ...

As wars fraught with incredible savagery engulf the world, as individuals with a lust for wealth, power and revenge are catapulted to leadership roles and then use their position to plunge nations ...

Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior.

The majority's most fundamental vulnerability is its simplistic interpretation of morality whereby one doesn't have to consider context. Most of us claim to embrace unconditional moral rules, a code ...

People gauge others' trustworthiness based on their moral judgments, new research shows. People who are seen as holding to moral absolutes are more trusted and more valued as social partners, the ...