Humans all around the world follow the same seven moral rules no matter where they live, scientists claim. Results were collated from a survey of 60 different cultures around the globe, published in ...

Anthropologists at the University of Oxford have discovered what they believe to be seven universal moral rules. The rules: help you family, help your group, return favors, be brave, defer to ...

Jim A.C. Everett receives funding from the US-UK Fulbright Commission, and the Economic and Social Research Council. Molly Crockett receives funding from The Wellcome Trust, Oxford University Press ...

Helping the family, returning favours, dividing resources fairly and respecting people's property were among rules which communities followed SEVEN moral rules are followed by people all over the ...

British academics have found seven ‘moral rules’ which are obeyed in more than 60 cultures around the world, suggesting they may be universal across human society. Oxford researchers said their study ...

WHY do we sometimes wrestle with moral dilemmas? A twist on a classic psychology experiment suggests that our minds have two parallel moral systems, and they don’t always agree. In the trolley ...

Bernard Williams, the 20th-century moral philosopher, once considered the case of a painter who leaves his young family to devote himself to his art. Certainly the painter deserves criticism because ...

First dates and large social events, like family reunions or holiday gatherings, can leave people wondering about which topics should be off-limits for conversations, or even dreading which topics ...

Twenty-six-year-old Jane Goodall watched a chimpanzee named David Greybeard strip leaves from a grass stem, creating a tool to fish for termites. This moment would redefine our understanding of what ...