Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People raised with a strong moral compass carry something different—an inner clarity that doesn't waver, even when no one's ...

Convinced by the benefits of having a strong moral compass, I set out to master it. One of my New Year’s resolutions was “finishing, details, polish.” In my research, however, I found that ...

AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says a philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela.

BRUSSELS — Is “following orders” a valid excuse for abandoning our moral compass? In a new study from Belgium, researchers watched people’s brains in real-time as they chose whether to inflict pain on ...