Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community's norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and there is a reduced willingness to police ...

Subbu Vincent is director, journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Political journalists operate within a moral frame (liberal for example) that may ...

The decline in moral values is a universal problem, although the extent and causes of decline vary slightly from country to country and from generation to generation. For example, a recent Gallup poll ...

A new UBC study has revealed regular seasonal shifts in people's moral values. The finding has potential implications for politics, law and health—including the timing of elections and court cases, as ...

Religion forms a moral foundation for billions of people throughout the world. In a 2019 survey, 44% of Americans – along with 45% of people across 34 nations – said that belief in God is necessary ...

When we think about morality, we usually focus on actions: is this act morally right or wrong? But increasingly, these kinds of debates involve the morality of everyday objects, like plastic bottles, ...

Our moral compasses aren't as rigid as we think, according to Audun Dahl's research. He argues that shifts in our ethical beliefs stem from encountering new reasons, not just selfishness or fickleness ...

This is Part 2 of my series on moral distress and cultivating moral resilience. Read Part 1 here. “Moral distress” is a term coined in 1984 by philosopher Andrew Jameton to describe the suffering ...