Can Volunteer tourism do more harm than good? How do people judge the failed actions of volunteers? Dr. Melanie Altemus is one of the first to study the moral psychology of volunteer tourism.

Check out our episode with Dr. Altemus 👇
#volunteertourism #moralpsychology #podcast #psychology

How does religious conflict reshape moral cognition across cultures?

We're hiring a postdoc to help answer that question using computational modeling (DDM, RL) across 20 countries.

www.phil.muni.cz/en/careers/a...

#Postdoc #CognitiveScience #ComputationalModeling #MoralPsychology

Goldilocks, Moral Leniency, and the Psychology of Privilege — Simply Put Psych Fact-checking the "innocence" of Goldilocks. An analysis of moral leniency, the halo effect, and how childhood narratives reinforce the psychology of privilege and structural bias in Western society.

Goldilocks commits trespass, theft, and property damage.

We don’t ask why she wasn’t punished.
We assume she didn’t deserve to be.

Why are some “curious” and others “suspects”?

Privilege lets some be “curious”
while others are “suspected.”

#MoralPsychology #Privilege #SocialPsychology

Giving two talks in Chicago next week: 1) Wednesday at Loyola University Chicago 2) Thursday at the Morality Preconference at SPSP. Looking forward to presenting on my new book and seeing old friends. @loyolachicago.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social #philsky #psysky #moralpsychology

Physical distance shapes moral choices in sacrificial dilemmas When people feel physically closer to someone who could be harmed, they are less willing to sacrifice that person for the greater good, according to a new finding reported in Cognition & Emotion.

Physical distance shapes moral choices in sacrificial dilemmas #Science #Psychology #Other #MoralPsychology #SacrificialDilemmas #HumanBehavior

www.psypost.org/physical-distance-shapes...

The author conclude that Moral violations "put us in a huff," but reason is the engine. We use emotional rhetoric to communicate our convictions, but the judgment itself is built on reasoning about harm, rights, and welfare. #Rationalism #MoralPsychology

Do emotions play an essential role in moral judgments? The past few decades of moral psychology research have yielded empirical anomalies for rationalist theories of moral judgments. An increasing number of psychologists and philosophers argue that the...

Do emotions play an essential role in moral
judgments? Nice paper by W. McAuliffe on the discussion Rationalism vs. Sentimentalism: Does reason or "gut feeling" drive morality? #Moralpsychology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're pleased to welcome Dr Aidan Runagall-McNaul, who is joining us as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab.

#Ethics #PracticalEthics #PhilosophyMatters #moralpsychology

The Price of Moral Certainty - Dualistic Unity Moral certainty feels stabilizing — but it comes at a cost. An exploration of moralistic thinking, cognitive dissonance, and why history keeps repeating.

Moral certainty can feel stabilizing—but what does it quietly cost us?

dualisticunity.com/the-price-of...

#MoralPsychology #InnerRigidity

Religion Doesn’t Help People (It Takes Credit for Empathy) - Dualistic Unity Does religion actually help people — or does it take credit for human empathy? A thoughtful look at morality, awareness, and where compassion really comes from.

Ethics don’t disappear when doctrine does. What does that suggest about morality?

dualisticunity.com/religion-doe...

#MoralPsychology #InnerTruth

The literature on moral psychology is clear: separating personal values from political choices is how systemic harm takes root. A vote for cruelty cannot be paired with a claim to innocence.

#Trump #psychology #MoralPsychology #harm #Hitler #MAGA #Republicans

Moral certainty feels stabilizing.
But once #identity is tied to being right, questioning becomes a threat — and #empathy narrows.

dualisticunity.com/the-price-of...

#CognitiveDissonance #MoralPsychology #Awareness

The Price of Moral Certainty - Dualistic Unity Moral certainty feels stabilizing — but it comes at a cost. An exploration of moralistic thinking, cognitive dissonance, and why history keeps repeating.

Moral certainty feels stabilizing.
But once #identity is tied to being right, questioning becomes a threat — and #empathy narrows.

dualisticunity.com/the-price-of...

#CognitiveDissonance #MoralPsychology #Awareness

The Price of Moral Certainty - Dualistic Unity Moral certainty feels stabilizing — but it comes at a cost. An exploration of moralistic thinking, cognitive dissonance, and why history keeps repeating.

Moral certainty feels stabilizing.
But once #identity is tied to being right, questioning becomes a threat — and #empathy narrows.

dualisticunity.com/the-price-of...
#CognitiveDissonance #MoralPsychology #Awareness

Does Research Indicate Personality or Cognitive Differences between Theists and Atheists? | Dr Will Gervais

#HumanismNowPod #HumanismNow #Humanism #Humanist #Humanists #Psychology #ScienceOfReligion #SecularHumanism #Atheism #BeliefAndDisbelief #CognitiveScience #MoralPsychology #CriticalThinking

How Culture Shapes Religious Beliefs | Will Gervais

#HumanismNowPod #HumanismNow #Humanism #Humanist #Humanists #Psychology #ScienceOfReligion #SecularHumanism #Atheism #BeliefAndDisbelief #CognitiveScience #MoralPsychology #CriticalThinking #EvidenceBased #ReligionAndSociety #Philosophy #Culture

The Misconception of Atheism as a Purely Rational Belief System | Will Gervais

#HumanismNow #Humanism #Psychology #ScienceOfReligion #SecularHumanism #Atheism #CognitiveScience #MoralPsychology #ReligionAndSociety #Philosophy

Are we only morally obligated to others?
Our new paper shows that people also see moral obligations to the self—bridging the usual divide between self-interest and moral goodness.

Out in JPSP 🎉 with @laurasoter.bsky.social & Susan Gelman
doi.org/10.1037/pspa... #MoralPsychology #GoodLife

Next up, Sylvie Borau (Toulouse Business School) on the expanding circle of moral disgust: from animal suffering to robot mistreatment. Disgust drives moral condemnation and engagement, but reasoning extends concern even to artificial beings. #MoralPsychology #Disgust #AnimalWelfare #AIethics

How can morality both constrain human behavior and afford the freedom to be one's truest self?

#philsky #moralphilosophy #moralpsychology
#autonomy #authenticity #trueself

Create a symbolic, text-free artwork that embodies the thesis: 'Individual decisions are influenced by the existential awareness of mortality, the political dynamics of power, and the psychological need to conform to social norms.'. Use motifs: scales balancing books and clocks, shadows of large, lo

Concept: The Weight of Choices
Individual decisions are influenced by the existential awareness of mortality, the political dynamics of power, and the psychological need to conform to social norms.
#Existentialism #PoliticalPhilosophy #MoralPsychology #VisualPhilosophy

Thank you Dr. Ashley Hodgson for this profoundly important and timely perspective. #Memetics #Politics #MoralPsychology
youtu.be/PvGiL9lRkJA

#philsky #moralpsychology

We're delighted to welcome our new Lab Manager for the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab - Sinead Cleary!

#MoralPsychology #Ethics #PracticalEthics

Here's a link to access our article "People Can Find Their True Selves Outside Moral Pursuits" (Cognition) for free for the next 50 days @jowylie.bsky.social @anagantman.bsky.social 📄 📎
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lznW2Hx2-...

#moralpsychology #philsky

Reconceptualising Knowing as Care The New Science of Epistemic Intimacy

My new paper, Reconceptualising Knowing as Care, shows that trust, recognition, and moral containment form the true architecture of mind — bridging psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy.

pkahl.substack.com/p/reconceptu...

#EpistemicPsychology #PhilosophyOfMind #Psychiatry #MoralPsychology

Very much looking forward to giving a talk at this year's SPSP Moral Psych preconference! #spsp2026 #moralpsychology #philsky

Beyond the Positive Bias: Rethinking Human Nature in Psychology — Simply Put Psych Explore how psychology’s bias toward positive views of human nature distorts research, limits progress, and why embracing flaws can build stronger societies.

Todays Op-Ed argues that psychology’s bias toward positive views of human nature distorts research, limits progress, and why embracing flaws can build stronger societies.

simplyputpsych.co.uk/monday-musin...

#psychology #psychologystudents #MoralPsychology

The Painted World and the Price of Grief: Psychology at the End of Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 — Simply Put Psych Explore the moral psychology of Claire Obscur: Expedition 33’s ending. From grief theory to AI ethics, discover how the choice between Maelle and Verso raises profound questions about illusion, truth,...

A little late to the party, but just finished Expedition 33 and wow this game got me good. Absolute GOTY

#MoralPsychology #GamePhilosophy #EthicsInGames #GriefAndLoss #PsychOfGaming #NarrativeDesign @sandfallgames.bsky.social