Trust is assumed to be important for charitable giving. However, disparate associations have
been found, and recent theoretical approaches emphasize motives for giving that do not rely …

Prosocial behavior is often thought to bring benefits to individuals and relationships. Do
such benefits exist when prosocial behavior is costly for the individual, such as when people …

Across societies, humans punish norm violations. To date, research on the antecedents and
consequences of punishment has largely relied upon agent-based modeling and laboratory …

The COVID-19 pandemic presents threats, such as severe disease and economic hardship,
to people of different ages. These threats can also be experienced asymmetrically across …

Purpose Collaboration between frontline employees (FLEs) and frontline robots (FLRs) is
expected to play a vital role in service delivery in these increasingly disrupted times. Firms …

Even before COVID-19, it was well known in psychological science that people's well-being
is strongly served by the quality of their close relationships. But is well-being also served by …

Ostracism—being ignored and excluded—is part of many individuals' daily lives. Yet,
ostracism is often studied in laboratory settings and rarely in natural settings. Here, we report …

Humans operate in groups that are oftentimes nested in multilayered collectives such as
work units within departments and companies, neighborhoods within cities, and regions …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

Interaction and cooperation with humans are overarching aspirations of artificial intelligence
research. Recent studies demonstrate that AI agents trained with deep reinforcement …