During the 2019 European elections campaign, we exposed a random sample of French
voting-age Facebook users to false statements by a far-right populist party. A randomly …

The fact that gossip can be inaccurate, intentionally or otherwise, has led to questions over
its ability to build cooperation in large societies. We explore the impact of gossip accuracy …

Children must sometimes decide between conforming to peer behavior and doing what is
right. While research shows that children have a strong inclination to act prosocially and to …

Reputational concerns are known to promote cooperation. Individuals regularly act more
prosocially when their behavior is observable by others. Here, we investigate 4-and 5-year …

One of the oldest scientific theories of human aggression is the frustration–aggression
hypothesis, advanced in 1939. Although this theory has received considerable empirical …

Nous présentons l'hypothèse des fonctions évolutionnaires sociales de la fiction. Après
avoir présenté le cadre théorique dans lequel nous nous inscrivons, et la littérature existante …

“Honor”-based violence (HBV) is increasingly recognized as form of violence against
women and girls, but is neither fully conceptualized nor integrated into risk management …

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

Providing evaluative information to others about absent third parties helps them to identify
cooperators and avoid cheaters. Here, we show that 5‐year‐olds, but not 3‐year‐olds …

Fonagy and colleagues have recently proposed that deficits in the capacity for epistemic
trust (ie, the expectation that interpersonal communication is relevant to the addressee) are …