Our human moral sense is colored by a fusion of self-serving biases and otherorientated preferences. On the one hand, we want to maximize self-benefit, and thus we work toward achieving outcomes that increase our pleasure, wealth, prestige, power, and reputation. On the other hand, because we care about those around us, we also behave in ways that help others, even when it comes at a cost to the self.We exist at a nexus point in human history at which morally fraught issues, such as legal access to abortion, restricting gun ownership, race and gender disparity, and wealth inequality, just to name a few, are becoming everpolarizing moral issues that we each must find ways to navigate through. For example, deciding whether we should lie to a loved one to spare their feelings over a political impasse, or figuring out whether to distance ourselves from a family member who harbors an unwavering racist worldview, have become common fodder in our everyday lives. Moral tensions need not be restricted to lofty armchair thought experiments in which individuals can cogently reason through the pros and cons of each outcome. Instead, weighing up competing moral motivations spans a rich social space. Indeed,