As machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) influence humans' behaviour in ways that
are both like and unlike the ways humans influence each other, worry emerges about the …

Research on morality has increased rapidly over the past 10 years. At the center of this
research are moral judgments—evaluative judgments that a perceiver makes in response to …

What can be done to combat political misinformation? One prominent intervention involves
attaching warnings to headlines of news stories that have been disputed by third-party fact …

Moral disengagement refers to a set of cognitive tactics people employ to sidestep moral self-
regulatory processes that normally prevent wrongdoing. In this study, we present a …

Meat eaters encounter a conflict between their eating behavior and their affections toward
animals. Because this “meat paradox” highlights discrepancies between behavior and …

We commonly think of information as a means to an end. However, a growing theoretical
and experimental literature suggests that information may directly enter the agent's utility …

Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development but is often in conflict
with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using …

A majority of people the world over eat meat, yet many of these same people experience
discomfort when the meat on their plate is linked to the death of animals. We draw on this …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

The sharing economy is estimated to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the global
economy and is rapidly growing. However, trust-based commercial sharing—the …