Successful people in power sometimes behave badly -- in both their professional capacities and in their personal lives. The last few weeks in higher education provide two prominent examples. The head ...

I'll start here by defining three moral postures people adopt: 1. Unconscientious Moral Maximizing: Pretending to always live by all possible moral standards while employing them selectively. Paying ...

How do kids develop a sense of right and wrong? Have you ever wondered why some people stand up for what's right while others struggle to make good choices? Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg had the same ...

Recent research on morality (e.g., studying moral reasoning with trolley dilemma, footbridge dilemma, or the issues of intention vs. outcome) or on its neurological bases has added new literature in ...