Is There No in-Group Bias?

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I worry about the broader implications of those narratives. What if we're telling stories about human nature that a are like oversimplified and not really grounded in, in scientific data? How do we conceive of humanity as a giant in-group? And how much can we change them intentionally by thinking, oh, my morality was wrong, I got to change it? Great question. There are a lot of different directions we could go and answer it.

Most of us strive to be good, moral people. When we are doing that striving, what is happening in our brains? Some of our moral inclinations seem pretty automatic and subconscious. Other times we have to sit down and deploy our full cognitive faculties to reason through a tricky moral dilemma. I talk with psychologist Molly Crockett about where our moral intuitions come from, how they can sometimes serve as cover for bad behaviors, and how morality shapes our self-image.

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Molly J. Crockett received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. She is currently Associate Professor of Psychology and University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

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