Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...

A study of children's conversations with their caretakers sheds light on the timeline of the emergence of moral foundation words in the first six years of life in English-speaking children. Moral ...

When my two sons, now young adults, were in elementary school, on some days my wife and I were sure they were lying with completely straight faces when we interrogated them about the status of ...

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community's norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and there is a reduced willingness to police ...

Child temperament encompasses innate differences in emotional reactivity and self-regulation that shape how young individuals engage with moral challenges. From the earliest years, variations in ...

The decline in moral values is a universal problem, although the extent and causes of decline vary slightly from country to country and from generation to generation. For example, a recent Gallup poll ...