Greed, envy, and admiration: The distinct nature of public opinion about redistribution from the rich

KJ Hansen - American Political Science Review, 2023 - cambridge.org
Research on public opinion about economic redistribution has made important progress by
incorporating the psychological microfoundation that shapes support for redistribution to the …

Social emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation: Theoretical foundations and applications to human personality and the criminal justice …

C Scrivner, D Sznycer, AW Lukaszewski, L Al-Shawaf - 2024 - academic.oup.com
Social emotions appear to be behavior-regulating programs built by natural selection to
solve adaptive problems in the domain of social valuation. For example, shame functions to …

Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations

M Zakharin, TC Bates - European Journal of Personality, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) predicts that moral behaviour reflects at least five
foundational traits, each hypothesised to be heritable. Here, we report two independent twin …

Can redistributive policies promote reconciliation beyond its scope? The impact of inequality reduction programs on peacebuilding in Colombia

C Rincón‐Unigarro, A Joel‐Bustos… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Transitional justice jurisdictions aim to promote reconciliation. Although previous research
focuses on truth commissions, the reconciliatory role of redistributive justice is less clear …

From envy to radicalization

M Moncrieff, P Lienard - Evolutionary psychological science, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Models of radicalization have typically placed grievances at the heart of
radicalization. In contrast, we argue that viewing the radicalizing agent as decidedly …

[HTML][HTML] Support for redistribution is shaped by motives of egalitarian division and coercive redistribution

CA Lin, TC Bates - Personality and Individual Differences, 2024 - Elsevier
The three-player evolutionary model of support for redistribution is compatible with a
fairness motive; however, existing research has found near-zero effects of fairness. Here we …

Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict

D Sznycer, A Sell, KEG Williams - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Justice-making institutions rest on a vast network of rules, people, and artifacts. The federal
criminal code of the United States, for example, has hundreds of sections with provisions for …

[HTML][HTML] Psychological pillars of support for free speech: Tolerance for offensive, disagreeing, socially divisive, and heterodox speech

M Zakharin, TC Bates - Personality and Individual Differences, 2024 - Elsevier
Freedom of speech is a core value in free and democratic societies, but its psychological
characteristics are not well understood. Here, we test a model of support for freedom of …

[HTML][HTML] Virtuous victimhood as a dark triad resource transfer strategy

TC Bates, C Grant, L Hobbs, C Johnston… - Personality and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Virtuous victim signals have been described as a resource transfer strategy motivated by
dark traits of narcissism and Machiavellianism Ok et al.(2021). Here we report direct …

Modular morals: The genetic architecture of morality as cooperation

M Zakharin, TC Bates, OS Curry, G Lewis - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
Is morality the product of multiple domain-specific psychological mechanisms or one domain-
general mechanism? Recent research suggests that morality consists of a range of solutions …