Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

Humans are outstanding in their ability to cooperate with unrelated individuals, and
punishment–paying a cost to harm others–is thought to be a key supporting mechanism …

Amidst rising economic inequality and mounting evidence of its pernicious social effects,
what motivates opposition to inequality? Five studies (n= 34,442) show that attributing …

Why do many societies moralize apparently harmless pleasures, such as lust, gluttony,
alcohol, drugs, and even music and dance? Why do they erect temperance, asceticism …

ABSTRACT Social Functionalist Theory (SFT) emerged 20 years ago to orient emotion
science to the social nature of emotion. Here we expand upon SFT and make the case for …

People's desired levels of inequality are informed by the levels of inequality they perceive to
exist. Perceived economic inequality is used as a reference point in determining people's …

Anger appears to be a neurocognitive adaptation designed to bargain for better treatment,
and is primarily triggered by indications that another individual values the focal individual …

If you are kind to me, I am likely to reciprocate and doing so feels fair. Many theories of social
exchange assume that such reciprocity and fairness are well aligned with one another. We …

Social emotions are hypothesized to be adaptations designed by selection to solve adaptive
problems pertaining to social valuation—the disposition to attend to, associate with, and aid …

We survey the literature on preferences for redistribution. We discuss different ways the
literature has measured these preferences and review literature on the different …