Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from
agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs …

Highlights•Studies with children and adults show that prosocial behavior is substantially
influenced by both descriptive and injunctive norms.•Norms facilitate cooperation by sha** …

Recent studies have proposed that social norms play a key role in motivating human
cooperation and in explaining the unique scale and cultural diversity of our prosociality …

Sustaining large-scale public goods requires individuals to make environmentally friendly
decisions today to benefit future generations,,,,–. Recent research suggests that second …

Social influence occurs when an individual's thoughts or behaviours are affected by other
people. There are significant age effects on susceptibility to social influence, typically a …

Norms permeate human life. Most of people's activities can be characterized by rules about
what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden—rules that are crucial in making people …

Prosocial and normative behavior emerges in early childhood, but substantial changes in
prosocial behavior in middle childhood may be due to it becoming integrated with children's …

The aim of this study was to investigate whether a social robot that models prosocial
behavior (in terms of giving away stickers) influences the occurrence of prosocial behavior …

Ignorance enables individuals to act immorally. This is well known in policy circles, in which
there is keen interest in lowering moral ignorance. In this paper, we study how the demand …

The principle of direct reciprocity, or paying back specific individuals, is assumed to be a
critical component of everyday social exchange and a key mechanism for the evolution of …