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 …

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 …

Do people want autonomous machines making moral decisions? Nine studies suggest that
that the answer is 'no'—in part because machines lack a complete mind. Studies 1–6 find …

Morality indicates what is the 'right'and what is the 'wrong'way to behave. It is one of the most
popular areas of research in contemporary social psychology, driven in part by recent …

In response to the same moral violation, some people report experiencing anger, and others
report feeling disgust. Do differences in emotional responses to moral violations reflect …

Household food waste is one of the major obstacles to meeting global emission targets. Yet,
it seems that we still do not fully understand why some people are more driven than others in …

Academic Abstract The idea of “purity” transformed moral psychology. Here, we provide the
first systematic review of this concept. Although often discussed as one construct, we reveal …

Moral psychology has long debated whether moral judgment is rooted in harm versus affect.
We reconcile this debate with the affective harm account (AHA) of moral judgment. The AHA …

Moral psychologists have used scenarios of abuse and murder to operationalize harm and
chicken-masturbation and dog-eating to operationalize impurity. These scenarios reveal …

Previous studies support a link between moral disgust and impurity, whereas anger is linked
to harm. We challenged these strict correspondences by showing that disgust is activated in …