The theory of dyadic morality: Reinventing moral judgment by redefining harm

C Schein, K Gray - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

[HTML][HTML] Moral decision-making and moral development: Toward an integrative framework

B Garrigan, ALR Adlam, PE Langdon - Developmental review, 2018 - Elsevier
How moral decision-making occurs, matures over time and relates to behaviour is complex.
To develop a full picture of moral decision-making, moral development and moral behaviour …

Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

WJ Brady, JA Wills, JT Jost… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social
networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to …

Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral.

WJ Brady, AP Gantman… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Our social media newsfeeds are filled with a variety of content all battling for our limited
attention. Across 3 studies, we investigated whether moral and emotional content captures …

The moral roots of partisan division: How moral conviction heightens affective polarization

KN Garrett, A Bankert - British Journal of Political Science, 2020 - cambridge.org
Partisan bias and hostility have increased substantially over the last few decades in the
American electorate, and previous work shows that partisan strength and sorting help drive …

Morality in Our Mind and Across Cultures and Politics

K Gray, S Pratt - Annual Review of Psychology, 2025 - annualreviews.org
Moral judgments differ across cultures and politics, but they share a common theme in our
minds: perceptions of harm. Both cultural ethnographies on moral values and psychological …

Insights from fMRI studies into ingroup bias

P Molenberghs, WR Louis - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Intergroup biases can manifest themselves between a wide variety of different groups such
as people from different races, nations, ethnicities, political or religious beliefs, opposing …

The emerging social neuroscience of justice motivation

J Decety, KJ Yoder - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Humans from a very early age are deeply sensitive to issues of justice and fairness, both in
their own lives and in the lives of others. Most people are highly motivated to pursue justice …

When are we more ethical? A review and categorization of the factors influencing dual-process ethical decision-making

CH Warner, M Fortin, T Melkonian - Journal of Business Ethics, 2024 - Springer
The study of ethical decision-making has made significant advances, particularly with regard
to the ways in which different types of processing are implicated. In recent decades, much of …

Do contemplative practices make us more moral?

K Berryman, SW Lazar, J Hohwy - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Contemplative practices are a staple of modern life and have historically been intertwined
with morality. However, do these practices in fact improve our morality? The answer remains …