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Emotion expression is an important feature of healthy child development that has been
found to show gender differences. However, there has been no empirical review of the …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral
psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he …

From an evolutionary perspective, morality is a form of cooperation. Cooperation requires
individuals either to suppress their own self-interest or to equate it with that of others. We …

In evolutionary perspective, what is most remarkable about human sociality is its many and
diverse forms of cooperation. Here, I provide an overview of some recent research, mostly …

Empathy‐related responding, including empathy, sympathy, and personal distress, has
been implicated in conceptual models and theories about prosocial behavior and altruism …

Empathy, which implies a shared interpersonal experience, is implicated in many aspects of
social cognition, notably prosocial behavior, morality and the regulation of aggression. The …

The development and maintenance of prosocial, other-oriented behaviors has been of
considerable recent interest. Though it is clear that prosocial behaviors emerge early and …

The ontogeny of human empathy is better understood with reference to the evolutionary
history of the social brain. Empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and neurological …