The social punishment (SP) of norm violations has received much attention across multiple
disciplines. However, current models of SP fail to consider the role of motivational …

Four-month-olds' ability to consider the intentions of agents performing distributive actions
was investigated in four experiments, using the Violation of Expectation paradigm …

Environmental morality is the foundation of a sustainable future, yet its ontogenetic origin
remains unknown. In the present study, we asked whether 7-month-olds have a sense of …

In the last two decades, several developmental researchers explored the ontogenesis of
morality, revealing an earlier origin of the moral sense (Hamlin et al., 2007; Hamlin, 2013a) …

Infants are born into rich social networks and are faced with the challenge of learning about
them. When infants observe social interactions, they make predictions about future behavior …

Across two experiments, we investigated whether infants use prior behavior to form
expectations about future behavior within the moral domain, focusing on the sub-domains of …

All group-living animals must coordinate securing and distributing territory, resources, rights,
and care. Human society presents a ubiquitous and unsurpassed level of cooperation …

In the past two decades, infant research has shown that infants as young as 3 months
possess socio-cognitive capacities and make intuitive social evaluations of others' actions …

Racial concepts emerge in preschool age, and affect children's evaluations of others'
actions. This research investigated whether 2.5‐year‐old and 7‐year‐old children's (N= 160; …

This study examined children's responses to targeted and collective punishment. Thirty‐six 4–
5‐year‐olds and 36 6–7‐year‐olds (36 females; 54 White; data collected 2018–2019 in the …