Responding to wrongdoing is a core feature of our social lives. Indeed, a central assumption
of modern institutional justice systems is that transgressors should be punished. In this …

Recent research revealed that infants attend to agents' intentions when they evaluate
helping actions. The current study investigated whether infants also consider agents' …

Corporal punishment is believed to precede various forms of violent behavior, yet prior
research has yielded inconsistent findings, partly due to variations in violent types and other …

Rewarding individuals who distribute resources fairly and punishing those who distribute
resources unfairly may be very important actions for fostering cooperation. This study …

The study investigated psychosocial factors as predictors of aggressive behaviors among
primary school learners in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study used a survey research design. All …

Underpinned by emotional processing, social exchange, and conservation of resources
theories, this study highlights the linkage of abusive supervision (ASV) with fear of negative …

Why do children, adolescents, and adults engage in costly punishment to sanction fairness
violations? Two studies investigated the differential impact of incidental anger on the costly …

Recent research has demonstrated that toddlers expect individuals to approach and reward
those who defend a victim from an aggressor rather than those who refuse to do so. This …

This research investigates whether preschoolers evaluate positively a puppet that comforts
another puppet and how different relationship contexts affect these evaluations. Children …

One means by which humans maintain social cooperation is through intervention in third-
party transgressions, a behaviour observable from the early years of development. While it …