Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

This paper examines why fundamental freedoms are so unevenly distributed across the
earth. Climato-economic theorizing proposes that humans adapt needs, stresses, and …

Ultrasociality refers to the social organization of a few species, including humans and some
social insects, having a complex division of labor, city-states, and an almost exclusive …

Effective conditioning requires a correlation between the experimenter's definition of a
response and an organism's, but an animal's perception of its behavior differs from ours …

The fundamental postulate of sociobiology is that individuals exploit favorable environments
to increase their genetic representation in the next generation. The data on fertility …

Self-control, so important in the theory and practice of psychology, has usually been
understood introspectively. This target article adopts a behavioral view of the self (as an …

The domain of “folk-economics” consists in explicit beliefs about the economy held by
laypeople, untrained in economics, about such topics as, for example, the causes of the …

What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate
“how” question or as an ultimate “why” question. The “how” question is about the mental and …

The debate about the credentials of sociobiology has persisted because scholars have
failed to distinguish the varieties of sociobiology and because too little attention has been …

Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the
predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around …