What is virtue signaling? Dive into the science and philosophy of moral grandstanding, social media behavior, and what it ...

Last month, on the centennial of the 19th amendment granting American women the vote, US President Donald Trump announced he would issue a posthumous pardon for Susan B. Anthony. A suffragette, ...

Public moral discourse is toxic. One reason it’s so bad is that people use their discussions of morality and politics for self-promotion, rather than to help others. You may have heard people accuse ...

Have you changed your Facebook avatar to support a cause? Did you take the ice bucket challenge? Have you ever offered your thoughts and prayers in the aftermath of a disaster? Do you express your ...

A pejorative term that refers to expressing opinions on social media that make one sound virtuous or charitable. Virtue signaling implies that the person is making comments without actually doing ...

Virtues such as compassion, patience and self-control may be beneficial not only for others but also for oneself, according to new research my team and I published in the Journal of Personality in ...

Growing up, I assumed, as most people do, that you can’t have too much of the virtues. Honesty, kindness, positivity, generosity, caring, hoping, realism – turn them all up to infinity, thereby ...

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