Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

Highlights•This review focuses on central questions in moral disengagement theory.•Theory
and empirical evidence confirms that MD can both mediate and moderate outcomes.•This …

Dehumanization is a central concept in the study of intergroup relations. Yet although
theoretical and methodological advances in subtle,“everyday” dehumanization have …

Although the act of dehumanizing an outgroup is a pervasive and potent intergroup process
that drives discrimination and conflict, no formal research has examined the consequences …

Confirmation bias is one of the most widely discussed epistemically problematic cognitions,
challenging reliable belief formation and the correction of inaccurate views. Given its …

Hate speech and hate crimes are trending. In the past five years, there has been an upsurge
in extreme nationalist and nativist political ideology in mainstream politics globally. In the …

Social and political psychologists have attempted to reveal the reasons why individuals and
societies that acknowledge that peace would improve their personal and collective well …

When innocents are intentionally harmed, people are motivated to see that offenders get
their “just deserts”. The severity of the punishment they seek is driven by the perceived …

We present a new six-cell Model of Moral Motives that applies a fundamental motivational
distinction in psychology to the moral domain. In addition to moral motives focused on the …

In this article, we examine how group identity and protection of group interests shape
morality judgments. We argue that actions serving ingroup interests are more likely to be …