People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or
“what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes …

Recent research has produced new insights into the early development of social cognition
and social learning. Even very young children learn and understand social activities as …

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If
reason is so useful, why didn't it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

Claims about people's intuitions have long played an important role in philosophical
debates. The new field of experimental philosophy seeks to subject such claims to rigorous …

Both normative theories of ethics in philosophy and contemporary models of moral judgment
in psychology have focused almost exclusively on the permissibility of acts, in particular …

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the
development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking …

John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our
understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

Research seeking a scientific foundation for the theory of art appreciation has raised
controversies at the intersection of the social and cognitive sciences. Though equally …