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 …

Moral judgments differ across cultures and politics, but they share a common theme in our
minds: perceptions of harm. Both cultural ethnographies on moral values and psychological …

Over the past decade, numerous studies have reported that infants prefer prosocial agents
(those who provide help, comfort, or fairness in distributive actions) to antisocial agents …

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 …

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

The ability to engage in counterfactual thinking (reason about what else could have
happened) is critical to learning, agency, and social evaluation. However, not much is …

Recent work identified a shift in judgments of moral praiseworthiness that occurs late in
development: adults recognize the virtue of moral actions that involve resolving an inner …

Children's evaluations of moral and epistemic agents crucially depend on their discerning
that an agent's actions were performed intentionally. Here we argue that children's epistemic …

When asked to say whether an agent is morally good or bad, younger preschoolers tend to
rely more on the outcomes of agents' actions than on agents' intentions, whereas older …

本文旨在对**年来提出的几个假设进行一个综述, 这些假设是关于在我们的物种进化和个体精神
发展过程中的道德和内疚的发展。 本文将说明, 群体选择如何看起来是有利于发展亲社会的动机 …