The field of moral cognition has grown rapidly in recent years thanks in no small part to
Cognition. Consistent with its interdisciplinary tradition, Cognition encouraged the growth of …

Social decision-making tasks involve psychological processes key to effective functioning in
a complex, social world. The Ultimatum Game (UG) is a widely studied social decision …

The anterior insula (AI) and mid-anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) have repeatedly been
implicated in first-hand and vicarious experiences of pain, disgust and unfairness. However …

The willingness to incur personal costs to enforce prosocial norms represents a hallmark of
human civilization. Although recent neuroscience studies have used the ultimatum game to …

Rejections of unfair offers in the ultimatum game (UG) are commonly assumed to reflect
negative emotional arousal mediated by the anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex. We …

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an increasingly popular noninvasive
neuromodulatory tool in the fields of cognitive and clinical neuroscience and psychiatry. It is …

Humans can integrate social contextual information into decision-making processes to
adjust their responses toward inequity. This context dependency emerges when individuals …

Behavioral decision theory argues that humans can adjust their third‐party responses (eg,
punishment and compensation) to injustice by integrating unfair experiences. Typically, the …

Everything else being the same, an equal outcome is generally preferred; however, an
equitable allocation sometimes is possible only by sacrificing the total amount of resources …

The paper sketches the historical development from emotion as a mysterious entity and the
source of maladaptive behaviour, to emotion as a collection of ingredients and the source of …