From an evolutionary perspective, morality is a form of cooperation. Cooperation requires
individuals either to suppress their own self-interest or to equate it with that of others. We …

Humans often represent and reason about unrealized possible actions–the vast infinity of
things that were not (or have not yet been) chosen. This capacity is central to the most …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast,
we propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species …

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the
development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking …

In two studies, the authors investigated 2-and 3-year-old children's awareness of the
normative structure of conventional games. In the target conditions, an experimenter showed …

In this provocative monograph, Bertram Malle describes behavior explanations as having a
dual nature—as being both cognitive and social acts—and proposes a comprehensive …

This article presents a theoretical framework of how people explain behavior. The
framework, based on the folk concept of intentionality, distinguishes two major modes of …

We propose that human reasoning relies on an inherence heuristic, an implicit cognitive
process that leads people to explain observed patterns (eg, girls wear pink) predominantly …

The capacity for representing and reasoning over sets of possibilities, or modal cognition,
supports diverse kinds of high-level judgments: causal reasoning, moral judgment …