Why do many societies moralize apparently harmless pleasures, such as lust, gluttony,
alcohol, drugs, and even music and dance? Why do they erect temperance, asceticism …

The rift between evolutionary psychology and the biosocial model of gender relations
impedes a fuller understanding of gender roles and gender inequality. In a novel …

Identity refers to how people answer the question,“Who are you?” This question may be
posed and answered explicitly or implicitly, at a personal or a collective level, to others or to …

Trends in the cultural salience of morality across the 20th century in the Anglophone world,
as reflected in changing use of moral language, were explored using the Google Books …

Moral values bind communities together and foster cooperation, yet these same values can
lead to the derogation and marginalization of outgroups. Five studies tested a theoretical …

Individuals living in either harsh or favorable environments display well-documented
psychological and behavioral differences. For example, people in favorable environments …

A growing number of oversight boards and regulatory bodies seek to monitor and govern
algorithms that make decisions about people's lives. Prior work has explored how people …

Liberals and conservatives often take opposing positions on moral issues. But what makes a
moral position liberal or conservative? Why does public opinion tend to become more liberal …

Temporal factors have an important role in intertemporal decision-making. Temporal focus is
the extent to which individuals characteristically direct their attention to the past, present …

Prior research in psychology has found that people's decisions are often inconsistent. An
individual's decisions vary across time, and decisions vary even more across people …