The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

The arrival of the Journal's 175th anniversary occurs at a time of recent advances in
research, providing an ideal opportunity to present a neurodevelopmental roadmap for …

Human beings frequently attribute anthropomorphic features, motivations and behaviors to
animals, artifacts, and natural phenomena. Historically, many interpretations of this attitude …

Over the past decade, numerous studies have reported that infants prefer prosocial agents
(those who provide help, comfort, or fairness in distributive actions) to antisocial agents …

Highlights•Studies on prosocial behaviors in the early years increase understanding of
origin and antecedents of prosocial development.•Longitudinal studies specify how …

Recent research revealed that infants attend to agents' intentions when they evaluate
helping actions. The current study investigated whether infants also consider agents' …

Four-month-olds' ability to consider the intentions of agents performing distributive actions
was investigated in four experiments, using the Violation of Expectation paradigm …

Emotion understanding goes beyond recognizing emotional displays—it also involves
reasoning about how people's emotions are affected by their subjective evaluations of what …

The current study investigated associations between children's preferences and evaluations
of moral and social-conventional transgressors in a novel puppet task and their links with …

Defensive behavior is defined as a behavioral response to threatening situations for survival
and body safety of oneself and others (Pulkkinen, 1987; Wrangham, 2018). Defending is a …