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·March 30, 2017·6 min read

Tests Can Help Quantify Automatic Empathy and Moral Intuitions

Researchers have developed new tests and math models to help quantify automatic moral and empathetic judgement.

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·February 13, 2017·5 min read

Brain Scanners Allow Scientists to ‘Read Minds’ – Could They Now Enable a ‘Big Brother’ Future?

Researchers question just how far fMRI research should go when trying to understand what exactly is going on inside our heads.

Featured Psychology

·November 25, 2016·3 min read

Is Santa Claus Really Coming to Town?

A new study suggests maintaining a myth may be damaging to a child.

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·October 11, 2016·3 min read

People Switch Morality in the Heat of the Moment

A new study reports virtual reality may help show how a person would react to a specific situation, despite what they report they would do on paper.

Featured Psychology

·October 9, 2016·5 min read

Would We Lie To You? Children’s Perceptions Get More Nuanced With Age

A new study as children get older, their moral evaluations of both lies and truths is increasingly influenced by whether they think this behavior will cause harm to either others or themselves.

Featured Psychology

·September 23, 2016·5 min read

Study Challenges Widely Held View About Children’s Moral Judgement

Researchers argue that a child's ability to make a moral judgement has often been substantially underestimated.

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·February 22, 2016·7 min read

Our Bad, Bad Brains: Roundtable Discussion for Brain Games’ Brains Behaving Badly Episode

Are humans hardwired for transgressions? Why are some of the brain's most basic instincts considered bad behavior? Why does bad behavior come so naturally to us? National Geographic's Brain Games asks Neuroscience News.

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Featured Psychology

·January 7, 2016·4 min read

Questioning Our Morality: Zoning Out or Deep Thinking?

According to researchers, stories that force us to think about our deepest moral values activate a brain region once thought to be on autopilot.

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Featured Psychology

·September 1, 2015·3 min read

Infants’ Moral Development Affected by Parents’ Views on Justice

A new study reports parental views on justice have an impact on the moral development of their infants.

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·August 18, 2015·4 min read

Brain Imaging Study Finds Unequal Healthcare Funding Provokes Moral Disgust

A new study reports brain areas associated with moral and social disgust are triggered in people when they believe healthcare funding is split unequally.

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Featured Psychology

·August 17, 2015·4 min read

Moral Traits, Not Memory, Considered Core Component of Our Identity

For families of those with Alzheimer's disease, it's the changes in behavior and not loss of memory which makes those close say the patient isn't the same person any more.