The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

The role of emotion in moral judgment is currently a topic of much debate in moral
psychology. One specific claim made by many researchers is that irrelevant feelings of …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying economic downturn have dramatically
impacted the lives of consumers around the world. From a conceptual perspective, such …

It is proposed that 3 emotions—contempt, anger, and disgust—are typically elicited, across
cultures, by violations of 3 moral codes proposed by RA Shweder and his colleagues (RA …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Previous research suggests that individual differences in pathogen disgust sensitivity and
social anxiety predict avoidance behavior, especially of pathogen cues, and reduced …

Across societies, humans punish norm violations. To date, research on the antecedents and
consequences of punishment has largely relied upon agent-based modeling and laboratory …

Emotions are one of the most apparent and important aspects of our lives, yet have
remained one of the most enigmatic to explain scienti cally. On the one hand, nothing seems …

Across the social sciences, a key question is how societies manage to enforce cooperative
behavior in social dilemmas such as public goods provision or bilateral trade. According to …