In an interesting piece about the independence of morality and religion, my fellow Psychology Today blogger Gad Saad rightly reports that many religious people believe that morality is an example of ...

What makes someone good or bad, right or wrong, immoral or moral? The science of morality has picked up a lot of steam in the last decade, seeking to understand how we develop a moral sense and how ...

Our overlapping Trump and COVID eras have seen a fairly sharp downturn in public trust in scientists. Around one in 10 Americans report less support for science now than they did before COVID. That ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Many people got very excited when the first ...