In this chapter, we distinguish between different forms of empathy-related responding (ie,
empathy, sympathy, personal distress) and prosocial behavior. The capacity for empathy …

Scholars from across the social sciences, biological sciences, and humanities have long
emphasized the role of human morality in supporting cooperation. How does morality arise …

Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have
struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals …

The acquisition of social competence, such as showing prosocial behaviour (fulfilling others'
needs) and social initiative (fulfilling own needs), constitutes one major developmental task …

Awe is an emotional response to stimuli that are perceived to be vast (eg, tall trees, sunsets)
and that defy accommodation by existing mental structures. Curiously, awe has prosocial …

Abstract The Cooperation Theory of moral development starts from the premise that morality
is a special form of cooperation. Before 3 years of age, children help and share with others …

The fact that humans cooperate with nonkin is something we take for granted, but this is an
anomaly in the animal kingdom. Our species' ability to behave prosocially may be based on …

Meta-analytic evidence indicates that the quality of the attachment relationship that infants
establish with their primary caregiver has enduring significance for socioemotional and …

Humans rely heavily on their prosocial relationships. We propose that the experience and
display of prosocial emotions evolved to regulate such relationships through inhibiting …

Being a member of a peer group involves making decisions about whom to include in or
exclude from the group. Sometimes these decisions are related to whether members of the …