“When there is a conflict, which group’s sense of right and wrong should prevail?” (Image: Ken Richardson)
Our instincts don’t always serve us well. Moral psychologist Joshua Greene tells Tiffany O’Callaghan why, in the modern world, we need to figure out when to put our sense of right and wrong in manual mode
You say morality is more than it evolved to be. What do you mean?
Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate in a tribal way. Individuals who were more moral – more…
