The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

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 …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

Where does morality come from? Why are moral judgments often so similar across cultures,
yet sometimes so variable? Is morality one thing, or many? Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) …

Both normative theories of ethics in philosophy and contemporary models of moral judgment
in psychology have focused almost exclusively on the permissibility of acts, in particular …

Mind perception entails ascribing mental capacities to other entities, whereas moral
judgment entails labeling entities as good or bad or actions as right or wrong. We suggest …

Corporate social responsibility has received an increasing amount of attention from
practitioners and scholars alike in recent years. However, very little is known about whether …

When something is wrong, someone is harmed. This hypothesis derives from the theory of
dyadic morality, which suggests a moral cognitive template of wrongdoing agent and …

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

Moral psychology uses tightly controlled scenarios in which the identities of the characters
are either unspecified or vague. Studies with raceless, genderless strangers help to …