Mere membership

Y Dunham - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Human social groups are central to social organization and pervasively impact interpersonal
interactions. Although immensely varied, all social groups can be considered specific …

The development of social categorization

M Rhodes, A Baron - Annual review of developmental …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Social categorization is a universal mechanism for making sense of a vast social world with
roots in perceptual, conceptual, and social systems. These systems emerge strikingly early …

The moral psychology of obligation

M Tomasello - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

Human morality is based on an early-emerging moral core

BM Woo, E Tan, JK Hamlin - Annual Review of Developmental …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Scholars from across the social sciences, biological sciences, and humanities have long
emphasized the role of human morality in supporting cooperation. How does morality arise …

Adopted utility calculus: Origins of a concept of social affiliation

LJ Powell - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
To successfully navigate their social world, humans need to understand and map enduring
relationships between people: Humans need a concept of social affiliation. Here I propose …

An evolutionary perspective on paranoia

NJ Raihani, V Bell - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Paranoia is the most common symptom of psychosis but paranoid concerns occur
throughout the general population. Here, we argue for an evolutionary approach to paranoia …

Altercentric cognition: How others influence our cognitive processing

D Kampis, V Southgate - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary
mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual …

Group cooperation, carrying-capacity stress, and intergroup conflict

CKW De Dreu, J Gross, A Fariña, Y Ma - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Peaceful intergroup relations deteriorate when individuals engage in parochial cooperation
and parochial competition. To understand when and why intergroup relations change from …

Following in parental footsteps? The influence of gender and learning experiences on entrepreneurial intentions

M Bloemen-Bekx, W Voordeckers… - International Small …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study focusses on the influence of the family context on the development of
entrepreneurial intention (EI) among young adults with entrepreneurial parents. It extends …

Theory of minds: Understanding behavior in groups through inverse planning

M Shum, M Kleiman-Weiner, ML Littman… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Human social behavior is structured by relationships. We form teams, groups, tribes, and
alliances at all scales of human life. These structures guide multi-agent cooperation and …