And it is in that spirit, and continuing with analyzing leading developments in the field, that in this post I am going to comment on Jonathan Haidt's (pronounced HITE) in moral-political psychology ...

Today the nation’s attention is focused on two topics which are actually related. The first is the impeachment proceedings of Vice President Sara Duterte. The second is the ongoing maneuvering in ...

In a survey involving a total of 2,472 respondents, researchers asked participants about nonpolitical and political moral behavior and nonpolitical and political moral tolerance. They found people ...

Moral conviction refers to the sense that a particular attitude is grounded in one’s core ethical principles, rendering it impervious to standard trade-offs of utility or compromise. In politics, such ...

God, sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives. How does any researcher begin to explain the motivations and work of 535 unique individuals (or even just the 435 members of the House of ...

Stephen Hawking famously predicted in 2000, "I think the next century will be the century of complexity." Today, the late physicist's words ring true, given the many large, multilayered problems that ...

It seems such an odd question. Nowadays, when we think of “moral,” we think of “ought,” as in “we ought to do this and not that.” Folks who think or do this are moral, while folks who don’t are ...

Imagine a world where people see each other across political differences with curiosity and respect, one where we genuinely want to work toward outcomes that serve everyone’s interests and needs. That ...

POLITICS should never be the source of moral values, national unity, or genuine human compassion. If anything, politics is often the art of division disguised as governance. The sooner we realise this ...

In order to heal a wound, we first must trace its edges. How vast are its borders? How deep does it go? The wound many of us find ourselves collectively tending to at the moment is a moral one. Moral ...

The research builds on Smith's work exploring how political engagement and ideology drive moral values and choices, not the other way around. "If that's true, then people will probably be using ...