We review research on the topic of trust repair, which has proceeded over the past four
decades using three different philosophical mechanisms that provide the bases through …

We review the logic of an evolutionary perspective on forgiveness, highlighting how insight
into the likely function of forgiveness—solving adaptive problems related to acquiring and …

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

Exploitation is a fact of life for social organisms, and natural selection gives rise to revenge
mechanisms that are designed to deter such exploitations. However, humans may also …

Across and within societies, people vary in their propensities towards exploitative and
retaliatory defection in potentially cooperative interaction. We hypothesized that this …

Conflict is an inevitable component of social life, and natural selection has exerted strong
effects on many organisms to facilitate victory in conflict and to deter conspecifics from …

The study of personality is a fascinating field, though very hard to grasp by someone without
a psychological background. Nevertheless, personality pertains to every human being, as …

In the second edition of his unique study of peer relationships in childhood, Dr Barry
Schneider re-examines this fundamental aspect of childhood. Taking the work of Jacob …

To fully understand human behavior, it seems inevitable to approach it from an evolutionary
perspective. However, much of human behavior has been overwritten by culture and society …

Previous studies have shown that when a recipient suffers from financial harm, allocators
can use repair strategies that address financial or relational interests to promote relationship …