Empathy Is the Secret Ingredient That Makes Cooperation — and Civilization — Possible
Where do the cooperative skills that hold together human societies come from and why don’t our selfish instincts overwhelm them? Evolutionary game theory suggests that empathy is a crucial contributor.
The Conversation
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Empathy Morality Reputation Social Behavior Social Contagion
When Employees Feel Grateful, They’re Less Likely to Be Dishonest
According to new research.
Harvard Business Review
Topics: David DeSteno Ethics Gratitude Honesty Morality Self-Control
Want to Be Popular? You’d Better Follow Some Simple Moral Rules
A new study reveals that we are more likely to trust people who follow simple moral rules — or at least give moral problems some serious thought.
Topics: Morality Trust
Study Suggests It’s Time to Debate the Morality of Machines
At what point do humans hold robots responsible for harmful actions?
TVNZ
Topics: Ethics Kurt Gray Mind Perception Morality Robots Technology
Should Animals, Plants, and Robots Have the Same Rights as You?
How humanity’s idea of who deserves moral concern has grown — and will keep growing.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Altruism Intellectual Humility Morality Rationality Robots Technology
Are You ‘Virtue Signaling’?
Probably. But that doesn’t mean your outrage is inauthentic.
The New York Times
Topics: Morality Reputation Social Behavior Trust Values
Empathy, Morality, Community, Culture — Apes Have It All
Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism.
Nautilus
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies Atheism Cooperation Emotion Empathy Fairness Frans de Waal Human Uniqueness Morality Religiosity
A Study of Ethicists Finds They’re No More Ethical Than the Rest of Us
A study of 417 professors published last week in Philosophical Psychology found that, though the 151 ethics professors expressed stricter moral views, they were no better at behaving ethically.
Quartz
Topics: Ethics Morality
What’s Wrong With Moral Foundations Theory, and How to get Moral Psychology Right
Moral Foundations Theory has theoretical and empirical weaknesses argues Oliver Scott Curry. He proposes a new theory of morality.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Cooperation Morality
Big Gods Came After the Rise of Civilizations, Not Before, Finds Study Using Huge Historical Database
God only started watching over us quite recently, according to a new study that analyzed 414 societies from 30 world regions.
Topics: Cooperation Cultural Evolution Evolution of Religion Morality
Why Mortality Makes Us Free
The heart of spiritual life can not be found in nirvana or heaven, but in the mutual recognition that this life is our ultimate purpose.
The Stone, The New York Times
Topics: Agency Morality Purpose Spirituality
How Belief in Punitive Gods May Have Helped Large Societies Cooperate
Belief in punitive gods may have helped humans cooperate across larger societies by uniting distant populations into a cohesive group.
New Scientist
Topics: Belief Cooperation Cultural Evolution Evolution of Religion Faith Morality Religious Groups
Changing Morals: We’re More Compassionate Than 100 Years Ago, But More Judgmental Too
An analysis of billions of words in the Google Books database shows the way society has valued moral principles such as compassion, respect for authority, community values, and fairness over time.
Topics: Language Morality
The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage
Moral outrage, at least on Twitter and other similar platforms, appears no more effective at reinforcing social norms than it is at driving people to theatrically overreact to the behavior of strangers.
Topics: Emotion Empathy Morality
Your (Future) Car’s Moral Compass
As self-driving technology booms, cars are already making choices with moral implications. How do you program for an ethics that we can all agree on?
Topics: Ethics Morality Robots Technology Values
Misbehaving: Being Clever and Wicked Is a Form of Creativity
Dark creativity uses the creative process to do something socially unappealing and guided by self-interest.
Aeon
Topics: Creativity Ethics Honesty Morality
Everyone Everywhere Shares Seven Universal Moral Rules, Oxford University Finds
The study, published in Current Anthropology, is the largest and most comprehensive and widespread survey of morals ever conducted and aimed to find out whether different societies had different versions of morality.
The Telegraph
Feeling Anxious? It’s Not Just You, It’s Our Philosophical Era of Neuroexistentialism
This contemporary angst arises from the growing body of knowledge that shows the existence we experience is a result of neural processes.
Topics: Agency Determinism Free Will Meaning Morality Naturalism Purpose
A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values
To figure out how autonomous vehicles should respond during potentially fatal collisions, a group of scientists set out to learn what decisions human drivers would make.
The New Yorker
Topics: Azim Shariff Ethics Morality Robots Technology Values
Here’s How to Crack Your New Year’s Resolutions
Practicing gratitude, compassion, and resilience can help us keep our New Year’s resolutions.
The Guardian
Topics: Animal Studies Bias Empathy Morality
The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness
What we can learn from lab rats that don’t show empathy for other rats.
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