Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) / quote 74 of 91
A universal moral sense across cultures
Humans tend to have that altruistic quality in spades, and in much more sophisticated forms than our genetic neighbors. If moral awareness is universal, we might also expect to see general agreement across cultures. Harvard researchers developed the Moral Sense Test, which hundreds of thousands of people from more than 120 countries have taken. You can take it, too, at http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu. The data they’ve compiled appear to confirm a universal moral sense.