Are We Really Under Resourced to Solve Conflict in Our Society?

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We have this narrative template of like, they're good guys and they're bad guys. And you must be one of the good guys, like, you can't be a bad,. You know, we have so many defense mechanisms to prevent ourselves from thinking of ourselves as the bad guy. This goes back to what we were talking about earlier around, like, social structures, as opposed to individuals being responsible for bad outcomes. So those three things are incompatible.

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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