Human reasoning is often conceived as an interplay between a more intuitive and deliberate
thought process. In the last 50 years, influential fast-and-slow dual-process models that …

Research on morality has increased rapidly over the past 10 years. At the center of this
research are moral judgments—evaluative judgments that a perceiver makes in response to …

Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

What role does deliberation play in susceptibility to political misinformation and “fake news”?
The Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R) account posits that deliberation causes people …

Studies on human reasoning have long established that intuitions can bias inference and
lead to violations of logical norms. Popular dual-process models, which characterize …

Sacrificial moral dilemmas elicit a strong conflict between the motive to not personally harm
someone and the competing motive to achieving the greater good, which is often described …

Conventional sacrificial moral dilemmas propose directly causing some harm to prevent
greater harm. Theory suggests that accepting such actions (consistent with utilitarian …

Research on judgment and decision making has suggested that the System 2 process of
slow thinking can help people to improve their decision making by reducing well-established …

Although many studies show cultural or ecological variability in moral judgments, cross-
cultural responses to the trolley problem (kill one person to save five others) indicate that …

Objective How does our personality relate to the ways in which we judge right from wrong?
Drawing on influential theories of moral judgment, we identify candidate traits that may be …