This article discusses insights from computational models and social neuroscience into
motivations, precursors, and mechanisms of altruistic decision‐making and other‐regard …

We conducted a series of meta-analytic tests on experiments in which participants read
perspective-taking instructions—that is, written instructions to imagine a distressed persons' …

Trust can be a dynamic social process, during which the social identity of the interacting
agents (eg, an investor and a trustee) can bias trust outcomes. Here, we investigated how …

Human interactions often involve a choice between acting selfishly (in ones' own interest)
and acting prosocially (in the interest of others). Fast and slow models of prosociality posit …

Does stepping back to evaluate a situation from a distanced perspective lead us to be selfish
or fair? This question has been of philosophical interest for centuries, and, more recently, the …

Some evidence suggests that people behave more cooperatively and generously when
observed or in the presence of images of eyes (termed the 'watching eyes' effect). Eye …

The Dictator Game, a face valid measure of altruism, and the Trust Game, a face valid
measure of trust and trustworthiness, are among the most widely used behavioural …

Urbanization is perhaps the most significant and rapid cause of demographic change in
human societies, with more than half the world's population now living in cities. Urban …

The current study examined the development of fairness behavior and tested whether
children's fair choices are fast and intuitive or slow and deliberate. Reaction times were …

Understanding the potential promotion mechanism for the formation and maintenance of
cooperation is a pivotal issue in the development of human society and the natural world …