Psychology & Psychiatry

How COVID-19 changed people's morals

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.

Psychology & Psychiatry

How your brain wrestles with the ethics of eating animals

Most people eat meat and dairy with little thought of the consequences. Yet those consequences are planetary in scale. Raising livestock for meat, eggs and milk accounts for roughly 14% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Can an accent influence moral decision-making?

When people are presented with a moral dilemma in their native language but the words are spoken with a foreign accent, it appears that they make more rational decisions. This was revealed in research that Susanne Brouwer ...

Medical research

Challenges faced by healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, while many of us remained in the safety of our own homes, frontline healthcare workers faced a sudden influx of patients with the new, highly contagious, life-threatening disease. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Pediatric critical care professionals experiencing moral distress

(HealthDay)—Pediatric critical care professionals are experiencing moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they have also shown attributes of moral resilience, according to a study published online Nov. 1 in the ...

Genetics

Sex, drugs, and genes: Moral attitudes share a genetic basis

Few hallmarks of the 1960s counterculture stand out like sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll—elements of a "lifestyle" that Life magazine once branded as "antithetical in almost every respect to that of conventional America." ...

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