Religion, in promoting outlandish beliefs and costly rituals, increases ingroup trust but also
may increase mistrust and conflict with outgroups. Moralizing gods emerged over the last …

Highlights•Cultures vary substantially in both moral judgments and moral
behaviors.•Cultural variations in morality within societies can vary as much as cultural …

Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today's global terrorism are in part
driven by “devoted actors” who adhere to sacred, transcendent values that generate actions …

Frontline investigations with fighters against the Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS), combined with
multiple online studies, address willingness to fight and die in intergroup conflict. The …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

In recent years, protesters in the United States have clashed violently with police and
counter-protesters on numerous occasions,–. Despite widespread media attention, little …

Au cours d'une conversation très libre, Alessandro Pignocchi, auteur de BD écologiste,
invite Philippe Descola, professeur au Collège de France, à refaire le monde. Si l'on veut …

This chapter focuses on moral flexibility, a term that the authors use that people are strongly
motivated to adhere to and affirm their moral beliefs in their judgments and choices, they …

Most moral psychology research has been conducted in Western, Educated, Industrialized,
Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. As such, moral judgment, as a psychological …

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in
confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by …