Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the
canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics …

The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Human social groups are central to social organization and pervasively impact interpersonal
interactions. Although immensely varied, all social groups can be considered specific …

Forming conceptually-rich social categories helps people to navigate the complex social
world by allowing them to reason about the likely thoughts, beliefs, actions, and interactions …

We argue that because of a long history of intergroup conflict and competition, humans
evolved to be tribal creatures. Tribalism is not inherently bad, but it can lead to ideological …

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

Ingroup favouritism–the tendency to favour members of one's own group over those in other
groups–is well documented, but the mechanisms driving this behavior are not well …

In this article, we analyse social interactions, drawing on diverse points of views, ranging
from dialectics, second-person neuroscience and enactivism to dynamical systems, active …

Scholars from across the social sciences, biological sciences, and humanities have long
emphasized the role of human morality in supporting cooperation. How does morality arise …