Morals are personal beliefs about what is right or wrong. Ethics are community guidelines that define good versus evil. There is overlap between morals and ethics, but they serve different roles.

This post is in response to How Moral Principles Make Us Dumb By Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D. Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and ...

Choosing to live with strong morals isn't always easy, but doing so models how to be a good, dependable person for others. Everyone has a set of morals that they live by, whether they realize it or ...

I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the ...

We’ve all grown up with a sense of what’s “right” and what’s “wrong.” Don’t lie. Don’t steal. Be kind. Respect your elders. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself—why do we believe these things?

In today’s society, are we doing our children a service by teaching them ethical and moral behaviors? There are so many people who don’t have a strong moral compass who do quite well in our society.

Part of being human is making mistakes and doing things wrong. People with solid morals try to act according to their values so as to not cause harm. When they do something that harms someone, they ...