People hate being deceived. However, what would it be if lies come from in-group members
compared with that from out-group members? In the current Electroencephalography (EEG) …

This study explored how interpersonal relationships modulate moral evaluations in moral
dilemmas. Participants rated moral acceptability in response to altruistic (prescriptive) and …

Pro-social lying, which serves to benefit listeners, is considered more socially and morally
acceptable than anti-social lying, which serves to harm listeners. However, it is still unclear …

People tell lies not only for their own self-interests but sometimes also to help others. Little is
known about the ways in which different types of goals modulate behaviors and neural …

Third-party punishment (TPP) has evolved as a vital mechanism for enforcing social
fairness, to reduce tit-for-tat escalations among peers. Third parties intervene in conflicts …

Reputational concern has been suggested as an important determinant of human
cooperative behavior and moral judgment in social interactions. Previous studies have …

Previous studies identified a network of brain regions involved in the perception of norm
violations, including insula, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and right temporoparietal …

For centuries, philosophers have debated whether moral judgments are the product of active
deliberation or that intuition drives our decisions about right and wrong. During the last …

Can beneficial ends justify morally questionable means? To investigate how monetary
outcomes influence the neural responses to lying, we used a modified, cheap talk sender …

Fairness is a key concept in social interactions and is influenced by intentionality
considerations. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated the …