During the early postnatal years, most infants rapidly learn to understand two naturally
evolved communication systems: language and emotion. While these two domains include …

The majority of research on infants' and children's understanding of emotional expressions
has focused on their abilities to use emotional expressions to infer how other people feel …

Judgments surrounding resource acquisition and valuation are ubiquitous in daily life. How
do humans decide what something is worth to themselves or someone else? One important …

People often consider counterfactual events that did not happen, and some counterfactuals
seem so close to actual events that they are described as aspects of reality. In five …

People infer that individuals are socially related if they have overlapping preferences,
beliefs, and choices. Here we examined whether people also infer relationships by …

Emotion understanding goes beyond recognizing emotional displays—it also involves
reasoning about how people's emotions are affected by their subjective evaluations of what …

It seems self‐evident that people prefer painful experiences to be in the past and
pleasurable experiences to lie in the future. Indeed, it has been claimed that, for hedonic …

Emotional expressions are abundant in children's lives. What role do they play in children's
causal inference and exploration? This study investigates whether preschool‐aged children …

How we feel about an outcome often depends on how close an alternative outcome was to
occurring. In four experiments, we investigated whether predominantly White, middle-class …

The pursuit of happiness has been an important component of philosophical thought for a
long time. Traditionally, happiness could be viewed as the result of rational thinking and …