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Key Takeaways 🧭 We ran a large U.S. study to understand how people make moral judgments. Our goal was to see which moral principles best explain why different people view moral situations as right or wrong. 🧩 We discovered 15 core moral dimensions that strongly predict people's judgments. Together, these 15 factors do a good job of explaining how most U.S. Americans respond to moral scenarios. 🧠 We developed a new way to measure and predict moral intuitions using persona

Consider the following hypothetical scenario (warning: some will find it disturbing): Poe lives alone with their dog for many years, when one day the dog runs onto the street and is lethally hit by a car. Poe, while heartbroken about losing their dog, has heard that dog meat is supposedly delicious, so decides to cook and eat it. How immoral would you consider Poe's action in this situation? Some people think it's not at all immoral - others think it's moderately so, but not

Key Takeaways Many debates hinge on definitions. Disagreements about God, personhood, love, justice and more can all turn on how key...