Microbes in the gastrointestinal tract are under selective pressure to manipulate host eating
behavior to increase their fitness, sometimes at the expense of host fitness. Microbes may do …

Maslow's pyramid of human needs, proposed in 1943, has been one of the most cognitively
contagious ideas in the behavioral sciences. Anticipating later evolutionary views of human …

Humans and viruses have been coevolving for millennia. Severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19) has been …

A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that
poisons our politics? We don't live in a 'post-truth'society—but a 'myside'society in which no …

In this article we argue that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by
allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

Moral psychology is a rapidly growing field with two principle lineages. The main line began
with Jean Piaget and includes developmental psychologists who have studied the …

Humans likely evolved precautionary systems designed to minimize the threats to
reproductive fitness posed by highly interdependent ultrasociality. A review of research on …

The multiple self-aspects framework (MSF) conceives of the self-concept as a collection of
multiple, context-dependent selves. From this perspective, five principles are derived …

Social interactions are characterized by distinct forms of interdependence, each of which
has unique effects on how behavior unfolds within the interaction. Despite this, little is known …