There is a large body of research demonstrating and delineating the complex moral instincts of young children, including babies far too young for these to have been socialized into them. Babies ...

Visual representation of the framework for how the scale and distance afforded by the internet distorts our evolved reactions for compassion for victims and punishment of transgressors in moral ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Chimpanzee research is a hot topic this ...

Enhancement technologies offer the promise of improving the quality of human life, physically, cognitively, emotionally, perhaps even morally — some of which could, in principle, be compatible with an ...

On December 10, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will reach its three-quarters of a century milestone. Adopted on the same day by the UN General Assembly in 1948, the ...

Crocodile tears, Can the ethical-moral intelligence of AI models be trusted? As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded ...

Employee demand for moral leadership from CEOs and managers is on the rise: The percentage of those who believe it’s more urgent than ever jumped from 86% in 2020 to 93% in 2024, according to findings ...

Scientists have created the world’s first monkey embryos containing human cells in an attempt to investigate how the two types of cell develop alongside each other. The embryos, which were derived ...

In the popular imagination, there is still quite a widespread assumption that religion is the source of morality. This is typically based on a belief that religion transmits the moral edicts of a ...