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Did you know that being good -- that is, moral -- comes with its own rewards?  Guess that's something Trump never learned.  But anyway. It's good to be good, according to newswise.com, which reports that "high moral reasoning" is associated with increased activity in the human brain's reward system. What does that mean? A new study has on this ma y help researchers to understand how brain function differs in individuals at different stages of moral reasoning and why some individuals who reach a high level of moral reasoning are more likely to engage in certain “prosocial” behaviors – such as performing community service or giving to charity – based on more advanced principles and ethical rules. Again, Trump, anyone? Moral development theory proposes that individuals go through different stages of moral reasoning as their cognitive abilities mature (I won't say that name again). According to the researchers, this new theory implies that individuals ...

What do you think success breeds?  If you said, more success, you're probably pretty successful. That's the answer, all right.  If you're good enough to do something well once, you can do it again and again, says a new study . In a study that used website-based experiments to uncover whether the age-old adage that “success breeds success” is a reality, researchers found that "early success bestowed on individuals produced significant increases in subsequent rates of success, in comparison to non-recipients of success," according to newswise.com. The findings  suggest that early success that is not based on merit may produce inequality in achievement among similarly qualified individuals. But the study also found that greater amounts of initial success failed to produce greater subsequent success.   Researchers  tested the success-breeds-success hypothesis by randomly allocating “successes” to individuals.  "In each scenario, we found that early s...