Fines, corporal punishments, and other procedures of punitive justice recur across small-
scale societies. Although they are often assumed to enforce group norms, we here propose …

Why do many societies moralize apparently harmless pleasures, such as lust, gluttony,
alcohol, drugs, and even music and dance? Why do they erect temperance, asceticism …

Why do many people moralize harmless bodily pleasures, such as gluttony, masturbation,
and drinking alcohol? In three pre-registered experiments (N> 1,600), we investigated …

The social-contract tradition of Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls has been widely
influential in moral philosophy but has until recently received relatively little attention in …

Ownership is universal and ubiquitous in human societies, yet the psychology underpinning
ownership intuitions is generally not described in a coherent and computationally tractable …

Morality guides people with conflicting interests towards agreements of mutual benefit. We
therefore might expect our moral psychology to be organized around the logic of bargaining …

Commentators raise fundamental questions about the notion of purity (sect. R1), the
architecture of moral cognition (sect. R2), the functional relationship between morality and …

Fines, corporal punishments, and other forms of institutionalized punishment recur across
small-scale societies. While they are often assumed to enforce group norms, we propose …

What explains the ubiquity and cultural success of prosocial religions? Leading accounts
argue that prosocial religions evolved because they help societies grow and promote group …

The social contract-tradition of Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls has been widely
influential in moral philosophy but has received relatively little attention in moral psychology …