A new study, summarized by Jarrett on BPS Research Digest today, helps explain why: Even if learning styles are actually nonsense, it sure doesn’t feel that way.” * * Can literature make us moral?

A new study looks at how exposure to media content featuring specific moral values (care, fairness, loyalty and authority) might influence the weight kids place on those values. The main study showed ...

It’s easy for us to believe that reasoning about moral issues is the most important aspect of morality. We spend many years in schools that typically foster an intellectual view of life, encourage us ...

How does morality work in the brain? How do we choose between altruism and self-interest? These are questions that the new multidisciplinary FeldmanHall Lab seeks to answer. What started in August ...

Learning to care for animals also means learning how and why to choose between them. Veterinary students often enter training ...

Why, exactly, would anything intelligent want to know when a conversation is heading to the bottom? Well, do people really want to know? It’s a social thing, but the big deal here is that it’s also a ...

Researchers at a Seattle A.I. lab say they have built a system that makes ethical judgments. But its judgments can be as confusing as those of humans. Credit...Pete Sharp Supported by By Cade Metz ...

It is rarely the case that you run across a public statement from a higher education leader of such moral clarity and unflinching directness that your breath is taken away. The recent public statement ...

How do moral dispositions come about? A view that many hold is that children learn from the explicit teaching of their caregivers—the rationalizations given by parents for the rewards and punishments ...