Consider two scenarios. In the first, Tom is walking down the sidewalk to work when he hears gunshots and sees a car speeding out of the parking lot of the bank up ahead and coming in his direction.

At this point, we typically take for granted that younger employees are looking for more than a well-paying job. They are looking to work for companies that are socially conscious and will lean in to ...

We are surrounded by people trying to make the world a better place. Peace activists bring enemies together so they can get to know one another and feel each other’s pain. School leaders try to ...

New research carried out by psychologists at the University of Kent has shown for the first time that a decision to express disgust or anger depends on the motives a person seeks to communicate.

Western society is built on the assumption that people are fundamentally selfish. Machiavelli and Hobbes gave us influential philosophies built on human selfishness. Sigmund Freud gave us a psychology ...

Consider two scenarios. In the first, Tom is walking down the sidewalk to work when he hears gunshots and sees a car speeding out of the parking lot of the bank up ahead and coming in his direction.

Converging evidence from the behavioural and brain sciences suggests that the human moral judgement system is not well equipped to identify climate change — a complex, large-scale and unintentionally ...