Cooperation between organisms can often be understood, like trade between merchants, as
a mutually beneficial exchange of services, resources or other 'commodities'. Mutual benefits …

Across cultures humans care deeply about morality and create institutions, such as criminal
courts, to enforce social norms. In such contexts, judges and juries engage in complex social …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

Moral judgments play a critical role in motivating and enforcing human cooperation, and
research on the proximate mechanisms of moral judgments highlights the importance of …

Artificial intelligences (AIs) are widely used in tasks ranging from transportation to healthcare
and military, but it is not yet known how people prefer them to act in ethically difficult …

What role do emotions play in moral cognition? Leading accounts argue that a multiplicity of
emotions, including guilt, outrage, shame, empathy, and even disgust, play an essential role …

Abstract Building on Rai and Fiske's (2011) Relationship Regulation Theory, we argue that
violation of relational motives will predict the perception of the moral wrongness of moral …

It is well established that one's sense of morality may be readily influenced by one's culture,
education, and life situation. Very few psychometric tools are currently available to measure …

How do we make inferences about the moral character of others? Here we review recent
work on the cognitive mechanisms of moral inference and impression updating. We show …

The ability to distinguish between mere equality in resource distributions and fairness based
on a broader range of contextual factors is of paramount importance in social decision …