What is social pressure, and how could it be adaptive to conform to others' expectations?
Existing accounts highlight the importance of reputation and social sanctions. Yet, conformist …

The neuroscience of morality has focused on how morality works and where it is in the brain.
In tackling these questions, researchers have taken both domain-specific and domain …

The Community of Advantage asks how economists should do normative analysis.
Normative analysis in economics has usually aimed at satisfying individuals' preferences. Its …

Genuine moral disagreement exists and is widespread. To understand such disagreement,
we must examine the basic kinds of social relationships people construct across cultures …

Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology
supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on …

[This article is published, with only minor editing from the proofreader, as: Haidt, J., &
Joseph, C.(2007). The moral mind: How 5 sets of innate moral intuitions guide the …

The topic of this entry is not—at least directly—moral theory; rather, it is the definition of
morality. Moral theories are large and complex things; definitions are not. The question of …

To become cooperative members of their cultural groups, develo** children must follow
their group's social norms. But young children are not just blind norm followers, they are also …

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the imaging capabilities of recent
hand-held ultrasound scanners. METHODS: Three hundred forty-nine patients were …

The concept of empathy is used to refer to a wide range of psychological capacities that are
thought of as being central for constituting humans as social creatures allowing us to know …