Adolescents are challenged to orchestrate goal-directed actions in increasingly independent
and consequential ways. In doing so, it is advantageous to use information about value to …

The importance of self-regulatory skills for the socio-emotional competencies of children is
being researched and discussed extensively. However, in order to make a clear statement …

Morality is a central aspect of social life and has been at the core of psychological theories
for more than a century. The scientific study of morality poses enduring questions about how …

What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate
“how” question or as an ultimate “why” question. The “how” question is about the mental and …

Young children endorse fairness norms related to sharing, but often act in contradiction to
those norms when given a chance to share. This phenomenon has rarely been explored in …

Human cooperation is a key driving force behind the evolutionary success of our hominin
lineage. At the proximate level, biologists and social scientists have identified other …

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

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 …

Elucidating how inequity aversion (a tendency to dislike and correct unequal outcomes)
functions as one develops is important to understanding more complex fairness …

Human adults engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair behavior, but the
developmental origins of this behavior are unknown. Here we investigate costly third-party …