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 …

All human societies are permeated by collectively shared entities that govern daily social
interactions and promote coordination and cooperation: norms. While the study of norm …

Infancy researchers often use highly simplified, animated, or otherwise artificial stimuli to
study infant's understanding of abstract concepts including “causality” or even “prosociality” …

Children's evaluations of moral and epistemic agents crucially depend on their discerning
that an agent's actions were performed intentionally. Here we argue that children's epistemic …

Little is known about the underlying emotional bases of children's prosociality. Here we
engaged 32 dyads of 4-year-old children in a reward-collecting task at the end of which one …

Infants can help and share in the second year of life. However, there is limited knowledge as
to variability in these behaviors as a function of target (eg, caregiver vs. unfamiliar adult) and …

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 …

Scientists have long employed puppets in research with young children; this essay explores
the validity of this practice. After considering what puppets are, their main types and history, I …

Infants are highly selective in their help to unfamiliar individuals. For example, they offer
more help to partners who move synchronously with them rather than asynchronously and to …

The relation between empathy and morality is a widely discussed topic. However, previous
discussions mainly focused on whether and how empathy influences moral cognition and …