Empathy reflects the ability to perceive and be sensitive to the emotional states of others,
often eliciting a motivation to care for their well-being. It plays a central role in prosocial …

Scholars from across the social sciences, biological sciences, and humanities have long
emphasized the role of human morality in supporting cooperation. How does morality arise …

Fairness has attracted extensive concern in manufacturing, service sector, and government
agencies. In group decision making (GDM), decision makers (DMs) may destroy the …

To successfully navigate their social world, humans need to understand and map enduring
relationships between people: Humans need a concept of social affiliation. Here I propose …

Developmental theorists have made strong claims about the fundamental prosocial or
aggressive nature of the human infant. However, only rarely have prosocial behavior and …

According to Graham and colleagues (2013), a “first draft” of moral cognition emerges early
and universally in development and is then gradually revised by experience and culture. In …

Recent research revealed that infants attend to agents' intentions when they evaluate
hel** actions. The current study investigated whether infants also consider agents' …

Our ability to understand others' minds stands at the foundation of human learning,
communication, cooperation, and social life more broadly. Although humans' ability to …

Recent research has provided converging evidence, using multiple tasks, of sensitivity to
fairness in the second year of life. In contrast, findings in the first year have been mixed …

Hamlin et al. found in 2007 that preverbal infants displayed a preference for helpers over
hinderers. The robustness of this finding and the conditions under which infant sociomoral …