Progress in psychological science can be limited by a number of factors, not least of which
are the starting assumptions of scientists themselves. We believe that some influential …

Sustainability science recognises the need to fully incorporate cultural and emotional
dimensions of environmental change to understand how societies deal with and shape …

This study shows that social and political trust may diverge in the face of shared threats, and
that this pattern is driven by negative information about crisis management. Leveraging a …

This article discusses insights from computational models and social neuroscience into
motivations, precursors, and mechanisms of altruistic decision‐making and other‐regard …

The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

Acts of extraordinary, costly altruism, in which significant risks or costs are assumed to
benefit strangers, have long represented a motivational puzzle. But the features that …

Despite broad interest, experimental evidence for gender differences in social abilities
remains inconclusive. Two important factors may have limited previous results:(i) a lack of …

Compared with the performance dilemma, how to deliver a megaproject following the
principle of sustainability is a more intractable problem. For the sustainable delivery of …

The aim of the present study was to examine the mechanisms of empathy for pain that
contribute to consoling touch, a distress-alleviating contact behavior carried out by an …

Costly altruism entails helping others at a cost to the self and prior work shows that empathic
concern (EC) for the well-being of distressed and vulnerable individuals is one of the …