Sublime

The bottom line is that in lab experiments that give people invisibility combined with plausible deniability, most people cheat.

Psychopaths reason but don’t feel (and are severely deficient morally).

Darwin proposed a series of “probable steps” by which humans evolved to the point where there could be groups of team players in the first place.

After analyzing the DNA of 13,000 Australians, scientists recently found several genes that differed between liberals and conservatives.15 Most of them related to neurotransmitter functioning, particularly glutamate and serotonin, both of which are involved in the brain’s response to threat and fear. This finding fits well with many studies showing

Moral pluralism is true descriptively. As a simple matter of anthropological fact, the moral domain varies across cultures.

Comme l’ont montré Epley et Dunning, les gens sont réceptifs aux informations qui prédisent le comportement des autres mais refusent d’adapter leur auto-évaluation.

Jonathan Haidt has suggested that feelings are so much more central to our lives than reason that they dominate most of what we do and even form the basis of our moral judgment.

The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict.

Broadly, political conservatives place greater emphasis on the last three, even when they might infringe to some extent on the first two, while those of a more liberal persuasion are more likely to baulk at any such infringement. For them, protection of the weak and a deep sense of fairness trump patriotism and deference to authority, for example.