In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist
Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes …

Social justice is a term that originates in philosophical discourse but is widely used in both
ordinary language and social science, often without being clearly defined. We trust the …

The rapidly growing field of cognitive neuroscience holds the promise of explaining the
operations of the mind in terms of the physical operations of the brain. Some suggest that …

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the
development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking …

By combining the models and tasks of Game Theory with modern psychological and
neuroscientific methods, the neuroeconomic approach to the study of social decision …

BACKGROUND: Humans have a strong social tendency to compare themselves with others.
We tend to feel envious when we receive less valuable rewards and may rejoice when our …

The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the
parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology …

This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James
Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he …

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income
inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We …