Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

Humans and viruses have been coevolving for millennia. Severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19) has been …

Our long co-evolutionary history with infectious agents likely began soon after the rise of the
first single-celled organisms. This ongoing evolutionary arms race has generated complex …

Humans are lawmakers like we are toolmakers. Why do humans make so many laws? Here
we examine the structure of laws to look for clues about how humans use them in …

The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from
what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can …

How does the mind make moral judgments when the only way to satisfy one moral value is
to neglect another? Moral dilemmas posed a recurrent adaptive problem for ancestral …

Laws against wrongdoing may originate in justice intuitions that are part of universal human
nature, according to the adaptationist theory of the origins of criminal law. This theory …

Anger appears to be a neurocognitive adaptation designed to bargain for better treatment,
and is primarily triggered by indications that another individual values the focal individual …

Natural selection produces cognitive systems that are well designed for solving ancestral
adaptive problems. This principle implies that interacting with others will be regulated by …

Sexual disgust is an emotion hypothesized to deter individuals from engaging in sexual
activities that are probabilistically detrimental to fitness. Existing measures of sexual disgust …