Social psychologists attempt to explain how we interact by appealing to basic principles of
how we think. To make good on this ambition, they are increasingly relying on an …

Moral judgments are important, intuitive, and complex. These factors make moral judgment
particularly fertile ground for motivated reasoning. This chapter reviews research (both our …

Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

A long tradition of psychological research has explored the distinction between
characteristics that are part of the self and those that lie outside of it. Recently, a surge of …

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 …

Many companies offer products with social benefits that are orthogonal to performance (eg,
green products). The present studies demonstrate that information about a company's …

Theories that reject the existence of altruism presume that emotional benefits serve as
ulterior motives for doing good deeds. These theories argue that even in the absence of …

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 …

Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result,
people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly …