Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A human brain on display at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo. Some researchers contend that neurobiology ...

Is Morality in Decline in America? Tumisu / Pixabay I’ve been thinking a lot about morality lately, and wondering where it went. I feel like morality in the United States has been in decline for many ...

Research has found that when you manipulate people to doubt free will, bad things happen – including cheating and aggression. But does it hold up?

Americans’ attitudes about self-expression, morality, individuality, and religious practice continue to vary widely across generations. There also continue to be significant differences between men ...

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 ...

A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture. There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the ...

Anthropological approaches to ethics and morality examine how diverse societies construct, negotiate and enact principles of right and wrong. Far from treating morality as a fixed abstraction, ...

Discussions of morality are typically characterized by ideas about justice, fairness, and the standards we craft for ourselves to navigate the world with those principles in mind. However, according ...

This Pew Research Center analysis explores how adults in 25 countries rate the morality of other people in their country. It also describes how many people around the world consider different ...

A new book by a Stanford neurobiologist offers a jarring proposition: that humans do not have free will and thus cannot be considered morally responsible for our actions. In "Determined: A Science of ...