Does gratitude promote a sense of fairness and equality?
Gratitude has been theorized to be a moral emotion, yet it has largely been studied for it’s hedonic benefits rather than it’s effect on moral reasoning. I had done some previous analyses on our data at yourmorals.org where scores on the Gratitude quotient scale were positively related to most all measures of moral reasoning. By [...]
What are the basic foundations of morality?
A few years ago, I was fortunate to catch a talk by Jon Haidt at the Gallup Positive Psychology Summit where he gave a wonderful talk about moral foundation theory, which seeks to determine the fundamental systems of morality. I sought to use his scale in my work and using that scale eventually grew into [...]
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- July 23, 2010
On Hyperpartisanship, Hypermoralism, and the Supernormal Stimuli of Modern Politics - July 21, 2010
The Psychology of the JournoList “Scandal”: Mirror Image Stereotypes - July 12, 2010
Intrinsic, not Extrinsic Motivation Leads to Greater Reward – 2 Theories - July 4, 2010
Appreciating American Libertarians – Insight from Ted Conover’s Book, Rolling Nowhere - June 30, 2010
Psychological Causes of Violence in Sports Riots - June 23, 2010
On the Morality of Torture & Utilitarianism - June 15, 2010
What can psychology tell us about moral reasoning that literature and the humanities cannot? - June 3, 2010
Armando Galarraga demonstrates the relationship between happiness and forgiveness - May 11, 2010
Wanted: Motivated Academic Writers to Help Publish Our Data - May 4, 2010
Can open government data inform voters in the 2010 election? - April 30, 2010
Consilience – The jumping together of psychology, technology, statistics, news and ? - April 28, 2010
What is more Immorral? Distracted Driving or Smoking Marijuana? - April 19, 2010
How to publish a Replication of Disgust & Big Five Personality Trait Correlations - April 5, 2010
Sam Harris’ TED video and the danger of liberal atheist moral absolutism - April 1, 2010
Nate Silver and Veronique de Rugy demonstrate how a more modern peer review process could work. - March 23, 2010
The Psychology of Aggression and the Ugliness of the Health Care Reform Debate - March 3, 2010
Does trait anxiety make your more or less likely to support war & aggression? - February 20, 2010
Democrats and Republicans agree that Justice & Fairness are about Equity, not Equality or Impartiality - February 17, 2010
Religion does not cause racism, but group morality may underlie both. - February 12, 2010
A Difference Between Democrats and Republicans – The Effects of Empathy on Political Interest - January 30, 2010
Hypermoralism – Morality causes ordinary people to do immoral things. -
What are the psychological differences that make people liberal democrats, conservative republicans, or libertarians? - January 27, 2010
Separating Pro-Peace from Anti-War Attitudes using Moral Psychology Measures - January 15, 2010
Methland by Nick Reding: Moral Maximizing and the Drug War - January 5, 2010
United States Gross Domestic Product vs. Gross National Happiness - December 18, 2009
What the positive psychology approach can learn from Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided - December 13, 2009
Does gratitude promote a sense of fairness and equality? - December 10, 2009
Gratitude Video from Conan O’Brien and Louis CK - November 20, 2009
Reading Palin’s “Going Rogue” & expanding the liberal moral imagination (Lederach & Wright) - November 18, 2009
Sarah Palin confabulates that “Jewish people will be flocking to Israel”