New behavioural and neuroscientific evidence on the development of fairness behaviours
demonstrates that the signatures of human fairness can be traced into childhood. Children …

The field of moral cognition has grown rapidly in recent years thanks in no small part to
Cognition. Consistent with its interdisciplinary tradition, Cognition encouraged the growth of …

Moral learning and decision-making are crucial throughout our lives, from infancy to old age.
Emerging evidence suggests that there are important differences in learning and decision …

Human cooperation is probably supported by our tendency to punish selfishness in others.
Social norms play an important role in motivating third-party punishment (TPP), and also in …

From a young age, children understand and enforce moral norms, which are aimed at
preserving the rights and welfare of others. Children also distinguish moral norms from other …

Responding to wrongdoing is a core feature of our social lives. Indeed, a central assumption
of modern institutional justice systems is that transgressors should be punished. In this …

Costly third-party interventions have been regarded as hallmarks of moral behavior,
because they are unlikely to be motivated by self-interest. This research investigated the …

Rewarding someone who defends the victim of an unjust aggression and punishing
someone who chose not to defend her may be very important acts of reciprocation in social …

A central premise of the science of comparative affect is that we can best learn about the
causes and consequences of affect by comparing affective phenomena across a variety of …

The social punishment (SP) of norm violations has received much attention across multiple
disciplines. However, current models of SP fail to consider the role of motivational …