People are selfish, yet morally motivated. Morality is universal, yet culturally variable. Such
apparent contradictions are dissolving as research from many disciplines converges on a …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

Behavioral decision research provides many important insights into managerial behavior.
From negotiation to investment decisions, the authors weave behavioral decision research …

“Know thyself,” a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best
path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our …

Research from numerous corners of psychological inquiry suggests that self-assessments of
skill and character are often flawed in substantive and systematic ways. We review empirical …

" The most brilliant and lucid analysis of virtue and well-being in the entire literature of
positive psychology. For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: Begin …

More than a quarter century ago, organizational scholars began to explore the implications
of prosociality in organizations. Three interrelated streams have emerged from this work …

Moral psychology is a rapidly growing field with two principle lineages. The main line began
with Jean Piaget and includes developmental psychologists who have studied the …

Four studies demonstrated both the power of group influence in persuasion and people's
blindness to it. Even under conditions of effortful processing, attitudes toward a social policy …

The better-than-average-effect (BTAE) is the tendency for people to perceive their abilities,
attributes, and personality traits as superior compared with their average peer. This article …