Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

Numerous scholars have claimed that positive ethical traits such as virtues are important in
human psychology and behavior. Psychologists have begun to test these claims. The scores …

Research has demonstrated that extensive structural and functional brain development
continues throughout adolescence. A popular notion emerging from this work states that a …

Adolescence is the transition from childhood to adulthood that begins around the onset of
puberty and ends with relative independence from the parent. This developmental period is …

Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making
decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different …

Given that we live in highly complex social environments, many of our most important
decisions are made in the context of social interactions. Simple but sophisticated tasks from …

What motivates people when they make decisions and how those motivations are potentially
entangled with concerns for others are central topics for the social, cognitive, and behavioral …

The study of prosocial behavior—altruism, cooperation, trust, and the related moral emotions—
has matured enough to produce general scholarly consensus that prosociality is …

In the highly social life of humans, rewards that are sought and experienced are intertwined
with social relationships and interactions between people. Just as we value nonsocial …

Trust is fundamental for the stability of human society. A large part of the experimental
literature relies on the Trust Game as the workhorse to measure individual differences in …