A new study has found that people "moralized" anti-social and non-compliant behaviors associated with the pandemic, such as failing to social distance from others or meeting with a friend in a park.

You raise some questions about what "counts" as moral behavior in your last post, which got me thinking about a related question that changes the conversation a bit: What counts as a moral issue? I ...

A politician will stand on the pulpit and thousands of people will watch, as he or she weaves a story about the past. For some, it will be Ayub Khan’s decade of development, for others it may be an ...

“The De-Moralization of Society, From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values,” by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf. 314 pages. $24. With language and clarity that belies Dr. Himmelfarb’s well-earned reputation ...

Moralization is the process whereby preferences are converted to values (Rozin, 1999). Two studies used an embodied cognitive approach to argue for the increasing moralization of restrained eating ...