People are particularly sensitive to injustice. Accordingly, deeper knowledge regarding the
processes that underlie the perception of injustice, and the subsequent decisions to either …

Humans from a very early age are deeply sensitive to issues of justice and fairness, both in
their own lives and in the lives of others. Most people are highly motivated to pursue justice …

Understanding how neural processes involved in punishing and rewarding others are
altered by group membership and personality traits is critical in order to gain a better …

Humans are willing to incur personal costs to punish others who violate social norms. Such
“costly punishment” is an important force for sustaining human cooperation, but the causal …

Determining the appropriate punishment for a norm violation requires consideration of both
the perpetrator's state of mind (for example, purposeful or blameless) and the strong …

Humans can integrate social contextual information into decision-making processes to
adjust their responses toward inequity. This context dependency emerges when individuals …

The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and
maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision …

Behavioral decision theory argues that humans can adjust their third‐party responses (eg,
punishment and compensation) to injustice by integrating unfair experiences. Typically, the …

In the history of humanity, most conflicts within and between societies have originated from
perceived inequality in resource distribution. How humans achieve and maintain distributive …

Unfairness plays an important role in economic decision making. This fMRI study sought to
investigate how the loss and the gain contexts could modulate behavioral and brain …