A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five workers who will all be killed if it proceeds on its present course. Adam is on the footbridge over the tracks, in between the approaching ...
What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a moral sense, preferring “helpers” over “hinderers” before uttering their ...
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Dr. Sally Satel’s chapter in Character and the Future of the American University: A Pathway Forward with James Q. Wilson’s Moral Sense, edited by James ...
To the legal system, the answer is clear: children have the requisite moral sense--the ability to tell right from wrong--by age 7 to 15, depending on which state they live in, and so can be held ...
WE have arrived at a stage of human evolution that must be almost unprecedented in history. A large portion of mankind — and just that portion which corresponds with the part that has hitherto created ...
I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in ...
No longer do embarrassed parents have to explain the Facts of Life to embarrassed children. And if anxious young Christians do seek advice on sexual morality from their elders it is all too often ...
IF a reporter is sent to interview a man, it is essential that he get hold of the right man, ply him with the proper methods, and sound him on the proper subjects. It is much the same with us. Some ...