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Sean Carroll: Most of us think that we are trying to be good, right? Molly Crockett is a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies morality as it is actually practiced in human beings. She says there's a very crucial modern question about how technology and communication in the digital age is changing the way that we think about morality. Sean Carroll: How can we change our personal views on morality? We learn things as we grow up.

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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