New research identifies a reason people may flout COVID-19 restrictions around the holidays: because altering longstanding rituals is perceived as an affront to sacred values.
We asked three million people how self-driving cars should resolve moral dilemmas. Was that a good idea?
We are reluctant to tell people how to live their lives, except insofar as individual decisions affect the lives of others. We can learn a valuable lesson for the present moment from the examples of smoking and drunk driving.
Moral Foundations Theory has theoretical and empirical weaknesses argues Oliver Scott Curry. He proposes a new theory of morality.
As self-driving technology booms, cars are already making choices with moral implications. How do you program for an ethics that we can all agree on?
The political events of the last few years haven’t exactly put truth and politics on better terms.
Are people viewed as more virtuous when they publicize their good deeds to others?
Tech makers should abandon Google’s vague motto, “Don’t be evil”—it’s too vague.
To understand why one person would actively desire to inflict suffering upon another, we have to look to a counterintuitive source: human morality.
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