In A Nutshell Researchers tested two types of moral arguments on 375 Americans: one focused on preventing harm and ensuring ...

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Exploring other people's motivations with empathy, respect and curiosity, instead of judgment, is at the core of effective communication about vaccines. Photo by Frank Merino/Pexels It's that special ...

A new study shows that moral arguments appealing to care and fairness can persuade both liberals and conservatives in the ...

Political pundits and others are scratching their heads in the wake of the November 2 presidential election, puzzled and perplexed that across the country more voters said "moral values" were the most ...

Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used. “Mars is a failed Earth.” It is common enough to hear such ...

We left one columnist's views out of our election coverage. A computer glitch kept us from reading it until now. It may be just as well. The subject of her column — moral-values voters — was being ...

Our overlapping Trump and COVID eras have seen a fairly sharp downturn in public trust in scientists. Around one in 10 Americans report less support for science now than they did before COVID. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

People's moral values could limit their uptake of lab-grown meat, a study suggests. People who say living a natural life is morally important to them are more likely to reject lab-grown meat -- also ...