Reputation and reciprocity are key mechanisms for cooperation in human societies, often
going hand in hand to favor prosocial behavior over selfish actions. Here we review recent …

The field of moral cognition has grown rapidly in recent years thanks in no small part to
Cognition. Consistent with its interdisciplinary tradition, Cognition encouraged the growth of …

Recent research suggests that the foundations of human moral cognition include abstract
principles of fairness and ingroup support. We examined which principle 1.5-y-old infants …

Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal
across cultures. However, its emergence in ontogeny remains unknown. We developed a …

To successfully navigate their social world, humans need to understand and map enduring
relationships between people: Humans need a concept of social affiliation. Here I propose …

Over the past decade, numerous studies have reported that infants prefer prosocial agents
(those who provide help, comfort, or fairness in distributive actions) to antisocial agents …

Researchers have proposed different accounts of the development of prosocial behavior in
children. Some have argued that behaviors like helping and sharing must be learned and …

Adults routinely make sense of others' actions by inferring the mental states that underlie
these actions. Over the past two decades, developmental researchers have made significant …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

The present research investigated the developmental trajectory of infants' fairness
expectations from 6 to 15 months of age (N= 150). Findings revealed a developmental …