Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

Human social learning is increasingly occurring on online social platforms, such as Twitter,
Facebook, and TikTok. On these platforms, algorithms exploit existing social-learning biases …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral
psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

Imitation and innovation work in tandem to support cultural learning in children and facilitate
our capacity for cumulative culture. Here we propose an integrated theoretical account of …

Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by
David Bjorklund remains the most comprehensive and current topical textbook available in …

Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

Forming conceptually-rich social categories helps people to navigate the complex social
world by allowing them to reason about the likely thoughts, beliefs, actions, and interactions …