The origins of religion: evolved adaptation or by-product?

I Pyysiäinen, M Hauser - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2010 - cell.com
Considerable debate has surrounded the question of the origins and evolution of religion.
One proposal views religion as an adaptation for cooperation, whereas an alternative …

Empathy and motivation for justice: Cognitive empathy and concern, but not emotional empathy, predict sensitivity to injustice for others

J Decety, KJ Yoder - Social neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Why do people tend to care for upholding principles of justice? This study examined the
association between individual differences in the affective, motivational and cognitive …

Religious moral righteousness over care: A review and a meta-analysis

V Saroglou, M Craninx - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•We meta-analyzed 45 studies on religion and Haidt's five moral foundations.•
Religiosity implies high purity, authority, and loyalty; care is involved only weakly.•Only …

Bullies have enhanced moral competence to judge relative to victims, but lack moral compassion

G Gini, T Pozzoli, M Hauser - Personality and Individual differences, 2011 - Elsevier
Bullying behavior is an immoral action because it humiliates and oppresses innocent
victims. Presently unclear is whether bullies bully because of deficiencies in moral …

Everything is permitted? People intuitively judge immorality as representative of atheists

WM Gervais - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Scientific research yields inconsistent and contradictory evidence relating religion to moral
judgments and outcomes, yet most people on earth nonetheless view belief in God (or gods) …

Gender differences in moral judgment and the evaluation of gender-specified moral agents

V Capraro, J Sippel - Cognitive processing, 2017 - Springer
Whether, and if so, how exactly gender differences are manifested in moral judgment has
recently been at the center of much research on moral decision making. Previous research …

Sociocultural influences on moral judgments: East–west, male–female, and young–old

KR Arutyunova, YI Alexandrov, MD Hauser - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Gender, age, and culturally specific beliefs are often considered relevant to observed
variation in social interactions. At present, however, the scientific literature is mixed with …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental moral philosophy

M Alfano, E Machery, A Plakias, D Loeb - 2014 - plato.stanford.edu
Experimental moral philosophy emerged as a methodology in the last decade of the
twentieth century, as a branch of the larger experimental philosophy (X-Phi) approach …

Foreign language effect in decision-making: How foreign is it?

M Miozzo, E Navarrete, M Ongis, E Mello, V Girotto… - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
It has been shown that decisions and moral judgments differ when made using native
languages compared to foreign languages. Cross-linguistic differences appeared in foreign …

The behavioral ecology of moral dilemmas: Childhood unpredictability, but not harshness, predicts less deontological and utilitarian responding.

HM Maranges, CR Hasty, JK Maner… - Journal of Personality …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Childhood unpredictability and harshness are associated with patterns of psychology and
behavior that enable individuals to make the most of adverse environments. The current …