We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of
ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly …

Why should you help a competitor? Why should you contribute to the public good if free
riders reap the benefits of your generosity? Cooperation in a competitive world is a …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

In this book Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to
exemplars of goodness, modeled on the Putnam-Kripke theory which revolutionized …

“Surprising and remarkable… Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his
personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others or
themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well …

New behavioural and neuroscientific evidence on the development of fairness behaviours
demonstrates that the signatures of human fairness can be traced into childhood. Children …

Attachment theory has been generating creative and impactful research for almost half a
century. In this article we focus on the documented antecedents and consequences of …