The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

Unaddressed or poorly addressed conflicts present increasingly difficult obstacles to
effective conservation and management of many wildlife species around the world. The …

Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—
determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other …

We develop a cultural evolutionary theory of the origins of prosocial religions and apply it to
resolve two puzzles in human psychology and cultural history:(1) the rise of large-scale …

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and holistic analysis of the socio-
psychological dynamics of intractable conflicts. Daniel Bar-Tal's original conceptual …

The authors outline a psychological model of extremism and analyze violent extremism as a
special case of it. Their significance quest theory identifies 3 general drivers of violent …

Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to
promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than …

Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today's global terrorism are in part
driven by “devoted actors” who adhere to sacred, transcendent values that generate actions …

Genuine moral disagreement exists and is widespread. To understand such disagreement,
we must examine the basic kinds of social relationships people construct across cultures …