Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

Recent theoretical and empirical work has facilitated the drawing of sharp conceptual
distinctions between shame and guilt. A clear view of these distinctions has permitted …

Winner of the William James Book Award Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award “A
landmark in our understanding of human development.”—Paul Harris, author of Trusting …

A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From
infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other …

A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing
Award" Game-changing."—Sy Montgomery, New York Times Book Review Mama's Last …

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast,
we propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species …

We test the theory that shame evolved as a defense against being devalued by others. By
hypothesis, shame is a neurocomputational program tailored by selection to orchestrate …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Genuine moral disagreement exists and is widespread. To understand such disagreement,
we must examine the basic kinds of social relationships people construct across cultures …

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 …