In the Washington Post, Peter Wehner advises the Republican Party to reassert itself as the anti-drug-legalization party. "One of the main deterrents to drug use is because it is illegal. If drugs ...

People tend to dislike immorality in others, but they make exceptions, a new Yale University study has found. Disapproval of qualities associated with immorality such as dishonesty, sexual infidelity, ...

Imagine you're getting hungry at work and you see a candy bar on a co-worker's desk. Why not just eat it while she's out of the room? Some people might not do it because they know it's wrong. Other ...

In a recent defense of strong comic immoralism, CU Boulder philosophy student Connor Kianpour argues for the aesthetic value of immoral humor A priest and a rabbi walk into a bar and … have a lovely ...

One way people may mediate immoral behavior is by viewing immoral actions not only as wrong but as actually impossible, outlines a new report. Imagine you're getting hungry at work and you see a candy ...

Experiments conducted by UC Merced researchers find that people who perform good deeds are far more likely to be thought of as religious believers than atheists. Moreover, the psychological bias ...

When a person thinks about naughty things, does one side of the brain get more exercised than the other? Eight scientists studied that question. Their report, Hemispheric Asymmetries During Processing ...

There are really only two positions when it comes to morality: one argues that there are no absolute moral values; that is, that morality is something that happens to an idea, somewhat arbitrarily and ...

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a trademark provision blocking “immoral or scandalous” trademarks. The justices ruled in favor of a company called “FUCT” whose trademark was earlier found to ...