The Psychology of Fairness: Why Some Americans Don’t Believe the Election Results
When a decision is made and people don’t get the outcome they want, they often tend to see it as unfair. Here’s why.
The Conversation
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Ethics Fairness Group Identity Morality Values
Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than Us?
A.I. developers are committing to end the injustices in how their technology is often made and used.
The New York Times
Topics: Bias Ethics Robots Technology
Just How Dishonest Are Most Students?
Many are tempted to cheat, but honor codes are surprisingly effective in curbing the problem.
Topics: Education Ethics Honesty Morality Values
You Can Get a Robot to Keep Your Lonely Grandparents Company. Should You?
The ethical costs and benefits of a companion robot — during the pandemic and beyond.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Aging Ethics Flourishing Loneliness Robots Technology
Why Won’t the Sin Wash Away? When Thinking Ethically Goes Awry
Is thinking about ethics pathological? When a person rewashes her hands despite knowing that they’re already clean, it’s pathological. Is it similarly pathological to ruminate about what we should do?
Psyche
Topics: Ethics Morality
Justifying the Means: What It Means to Treat All Suffering Equally
Peter Singer believes there are no moral absolutes, and that logic and calculation are better guides to moral behavior than feelings and intuitions.
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Morality Rationality Values
Our Better Angels: What We Lose When We Assume People Are Bad
Is there a hidden cost to the rest of us when we put bad actors at the center of our thinking? Do the measures we put in place to curtail the selfish inadvertently hurt our capacity to do right by others?
Topics: Ethics Generosity Rationality Values
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Make Better Decisions During a Crisis?
New research indicates that AI may help people cooperate and make ethical decisions faster and with fewer errors.
Medium
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Ethics Morality
When We’re Wrong, It’s Our Responsibility as Scientists to Say So
Upon learning that something they had been promoting for nearly a decade may not be true, the original authors confronted the issue directly by running new and more rigorous studies, and the original journal was open to publishing a new peer-reviewed article documenting the correction.
Scientific American
Topics: Ethics Honesty Morality
How Morally Egalitarian Are We?
Researchers explore the ethics of who we think should be saved by an automated vehicle in an accident.
Cosmos
Topics: Azim Shariff Ethics Kurt Gray Morality Robots Technology Values
Can Artificial Intelligence Increase Our Morality?
Just as we define our technologies, they define us.
Psyched!, Psychology Today
Topics: Ethics Morality Technology
Is It Okay to Sacrifice One Person to Save Many? How You Answer Depends On Where You’re From
A new study uses the famous trolley problem to show how our culture shapes our moral beliefs.
AI Religion Is Upon Us. Welcome to the Future
Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral.
Vox
Topics: Ethics Faith Religious Change Religious Groups Robots Spirituality Technology
Why Do Groups Protect Immoral Group Members?
When responding to moral violations within their group, people may experience a tension between their motivation to protect the group and their ethical beliefs.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Ethics Group Identity Morality Reputation
Beyond Oneself: The Ethics and Psychology of Awe
Professor of religious studies and ethicist Lisa Sideris joins psychologists Jennifer Stellar and Piercarlo Valdesolo to explore our understanding of how awe shapes our perspectives and views on everything from science to morality.
The New York Academy of Sciences
Topics: Awe Ethics Morality Wonder
The Fast Track to a Life Well Lived Is Feeling Grateful
The more gratitude people feel toward those who have helped them, the more diligently they will work to pay them back.
Aeon
Topics: Emotion Ethics Gratitude Morality Self-Control
What Science Tells Us About the Psychology of Whistleblowers
What does the research show? Key findings from decades of scientific inquiry examining the psychology of whistleblowing are summarized.
Forbes
Topics: Ethics Fairness Morality
Whistle-Blowers Act Out of a Sense of Morality
Moral concerns outweigh organizational factors when people consider exposing bad behavior.
Chicago Booth Review
When It Comes to Moral Decisions, Testosterone Doesn’t Seem to Do Much
The researchers admit that every one of their hypotheses was wrong.
Ars Technica
Topics: Decision-Making Empathy Ethics Morality
Tainted by Association
Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
Topics: Ethics Luck Morality
Are We Intuitively Honest or Dishonest?
People may be intuitively dishonest, but only if it does not harm others.
Decisions in Context, Psychology Today
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Honesty
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