Social psychologists attempt to explain how we interact by appealing to basic principles of
how we think. To make good on this ambition, they are increasingly relying on an …

Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

From sparse descriptions of events, observers can make systematic and nuanced
predictions of what emotions the people involved will experience. We propose a formal …

This review of the neuroscience of anger is part of The Human Affectome Project, where we
attempt to map anger and its components (ie, physiological, cognitive, experiential) to the …

In engineering, form follows function. It is therefore difficult to understand an engineered
object if one does not examine it in light of its function. Just as understanding the structure of …

Laws against wrongdoing may originate in justice intuitions that are part of universal human
nature, according to the adaptationist theory of the origins of criminal law. This theory …

To achieve integration in the study of personality, researchers need to model the
motivational processes that give rise to stable individual differences in behavior, cognition …

The field of personality psychology aspires to construct an overarching theory of human
nature and individual differences: one that specifies the psychological mechanisms that …

The emerging neurocomputational vision of humans as embodied, ecologically embedded,
social agents—who shape and are shaped by their environment—offers a golden …