Social cognitive processes are critical in navigating complex social interactions and are
associated with a network of brain areas termed the 'social brain'. Here, we describe the …

New behavioural and neuroscientific evidence on the development of fairness behaviours
demonstrates that the signatures of human fairness can be traced into childhood. Children …

About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered
as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has …

A sense of fairness plays a critical role in supporting human cooperation,,. Adult norms of fair
resource sharing vary widely across societies, suggesting that culture shapes the acquisition …

Take-it or leave-it offers are probably as old as mankind. Our objective here is, first, to
provide a, probably subjectively colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game …

Human social interaction is strongly shaped by other-regarding preferences, that is, a
concern for the welfare of others. These preferences are important for a unique aspect of …

Research using economic games has demonstrated that adults are willing to sacrifice
rewards in order to prevent inequity both when they receive less than a social partner …

Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the
nature and development of people's fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has …

Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental
issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper, we review the experimental evidence on …

Economic research has proposed that emotions like anger, guilt, and other moral emotions
might be important causes of strong reciprocity, the willingness to sacrifice own resources for …