Responding to wrongdoing is a core feature of our social lives. Indeed, a central assumption
of modern institutional justice systems is that transgressors should be punished. In this …

Humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate relative to many other species. We review
the neural mechanisms supporting human cooperation, focusing on the prefrontal cortex …

Judgments of whether an action is morally wrong depend on who is involved and the nature
of their relationship. But how, when, and why social relationships shape moral judgments is …

Do children, like most adults, believe that only kin and close others are obligated to help one
another? In two studies (total N= 1140), we examined whether children (∼ 5-to∼ 10-yos) …

Rewarding someone who defends the victim of an unjust aggression and punishing
someone who chose not to defend her may be very important acts of reciprocation in social …

The recent replicability crisis in social and biomedical sciences has highlighted the need for
improvement in the honest transmission of scientific content. We present the results of two …

Human beings naturally prefer and support ingroup members more than outgroup members,
but to what extent do we morally value equal treatment to ingroups and outgroups? Across …

This study examines how retributive motives—the desire to punish for the purpose of
inflicting harm in the absence of future benefits—shape third‐party punishment behavior …

Recent work indicates that people are more likely to protect a close (vs. distant) other who
commits a crime. But do people think it is morally right to treat close others differently? On …

The impartial enforcement of norms and laws is a hallmark of fair societies, yet partial,
unequal norm enforcement is common, for example as a result of corruption. While children …