Evolutionary psychology is the second wave of the cognitive revolution. The first wave
focused on computational processes that generate knowledge about the world: perception …

Decision-making in the context of complex human–natural systems requires a transition
towards robust model-based inferences which are effective despite uncertainties of human …

Public opinion concerning social welfare is largely driven by perceptions of recipient
deservingness. Extant research has argued that this heuristic is learned from a variety of …

In reply to commentary on our target article, we supply further evidence and hypotheses in
the description of ritualized behaviors in humans. Reactions to indirect fitness threats …

When Darwin proposed that females shape evolution by being choosy in their choice of
male suitors, his Victorian contemporaries were shocked that he accorded so much …

Are humans too generous? The discovery that subjects choose to incur costs to allocate
benefits to others in anonymous, one-shot economic games has posed an unsolved …

Blank-slate theories of human intelligence propose that reasoning is carried out by general-
purpose operations applied uniformly across contents. An evolutionary approach implies a …

Evidence suggests that our foraging ancestors engaged in the small‐scale equivalent of
social insurance as an essential tool of survival and evolved a sophisticated psychology of …

A defining characteristic of psychopathy is the willingness to intentionally commit moral
transgressions against others without guilt or remorse. Despite this “moral insensitivity,” the …

Disgust, an emotion related to avoiding harmful substances, has been linked to moral
judgments in many behavioral studies. However, the fact that participants report feelings of …