Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

Background The human sense of fairness presents an evolutionary puzzle because it
appears to run counter to the short-term interests of at least some parties. We not only react …

Human adults engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair behavior, but the
developmental origins of this behavior are unknown. Here we investigate costly third-party …

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the
development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking …

Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal
across cultures. However, its emergence in ontogeny remains unknown. We developed a …

Pollinators visit flowers for rewards and should therefore have a preference for floral signals
that indicate reward status, so called 'honest signals'. We investigated honest signalling in …

Paranoia is the most common symptom of psychosis but paranoid concerns occur
throughout the general population. Here, we argue for an evolutionary approach to paranoia …

Punishment is a potential mechanism to stabilise cooperation between self-regarding
agents. Theoretical and empirical studies on the importance of a punitive reputation have …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be
a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country …