Seven moral rules found all around the world Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies Date: March 4, 2019 ...

Today moral rules apply to everything from the coffee we buy to the pronouns we use, and we are judged by the intensity of ...

In the largest cross-cultural survey ever conducted, a team of anthropologists has determined 7 moral rules they suggest are universal. Surveying ethnographic accounts from 60 different cultures ...

Many psychologists think that human moral rules are an extension of this “kin selection“. Robert Kurzban of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia thinks there’s more to it than that.

I recently ran across two accessible pieces by two young philosophers which, taken together, nicely illustrate how the classic nativist vs. empiricist debate takes shape in contemporary moral ...

One of the clearest places to see how specific social rules apply is in animal play. Play has been extensively studied in social canids (members of the dog family) like wolves, coyotes, and ...

Part of the fun of video games is the chance to inhabit an exciting fictional world. So do people who play these games feel free to behave immorally toward the characters on screen?

Now, we can disagree about which particular moral rules are ones that the government should enforce. In fact, every time a person says, “You should not enforce your morality on other people,” what ...

Anthropologists at the University of Oxford have discovered what they believe to be seven universal moral rules. The rules: help you family, help your group, return favors, be brave, defer to ...

If morality requires us to squelch what’s essentially human within us, Williams argued, it can’t always be the only criterion we use to guide our lives. Grab a Copy The Invention of Good and ...