Prosocial behaviour is fundamental for our social togetherness. Yet, how acute stress, a
common everyday occurrence, influences our behaviours towards one another is still …

Direct and indirect reciprocity are two fundamental mechanisms that promote prosocial
behavior within groups and across societies. Here, we review recent work that illustrates …

Social desirability (SD) scales have been used for decades in psychology and beyond.
These scales are sought to measure individuals' tendencies to present themselves overly …

Research on ostracism has mostly focused on ostracized targets' reactions to being
excluded and ignored. In contrast, the ostracizing sources' perspective and reasons for why …

We aim to understand fundamental preferences over fairness and cooperation embedded in
artificial intelligence (AI). We do this by having a large language model (LLM), GPT-3.5, play …

Political orientation reflects beliefs, opinions, and values that are, at least in part, rooted in
stable interindividual differences. Whereas evidence has accumulated with regard to the …

Whereas research focusing on stable dispositions has long attributed ethically and socially
aversive behavior to an array of aversive (or “dark”) traits, other approaches from social …

Previous research suggests that individuals prioritize prosocial over pro-environmental
motives whenever these motives conflict, that is, when cooperation and pro-environmental …

Individuals differ in how they weigh their own utility versus others'. This tendency codefines
the dark factor of personality (D), which is conceptualized as the underlying disposition from …

Some scholars find that behavioral variation in the public goods game is explained by
variations in participants' understanding of how to maximize payoff and that confusion leads …