Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

Psychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the
psychology of individuals–in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual …

Narrative fictions have surely become the single most widespread source of entertainment in
the world. In their free time, humans read novels and comics, watch movies and TV series …

Our goal in this paper is to use an evolutionary approach to explain the existence and
design features of human moral cognition. Our premise is that humans are under selection …

What role do emotions play in moral cognition? Leading accounts argue that a multiplicity of
emotions, including guilt, outrage, shame, empathy, and even disgust, play an essential role …

Why do many people moralize harmless bodily pleasures, such as gluttony, masturbation,
and drinking alcohol? In four pre-registered experiments (N> 2,700), we investigated …

We applaud the authors' impressive effort in compiling the Seshat database, as well as the
remarkable Analytic Narratives they produced on supernatural punishment. This project …

Although researchers have considered the role of morality in consumer psychology over the
years, such investigations often fail to (a) recognize the different values that consumers …

Individuals living in either harsh or favorable environments display well-documented
psychological and behavioral differences. For example, people in favorable environments …

Research suggests that people's capacity to successfully pursue hedonic goals is at least as
important for well-being as trait self-control. Extending this research, we tested whether trait …