Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

Proponents of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the United States have claimed that
such methods are necessary for obtaining information from uncooperative terrorism …

One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people's information
processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and …

Can one use emotion at anything other than the individual level of analysis? Emotion
happens in biological bodies, not in the space between them, and this implies that group …

Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition offers a comprehensive and up-to-date
overview of the social psychology of aggression, covering all the relevant major theories …

Morality indicates what is the 'right'and what is the 'wrong'way to behave. It is one of the most
popular areas of research in contemporary social psychology, driven in part by recent …

In recent years social psychologists have displayed a growing interest in examining morality—
what people consider right and wrong. The majority of work in this area has addressed this …

In this article, we examine how group identity and protection of group interests shape
morality judgments. We argue that actions serving ingroup interests are more likely to be …

Political orientation reflects beliefs, opinions, and values that are, at least in part, rooted in
stable interindividual differences. Whereas evidence has accumulated with regard to the …

Whistleblowing is the disclosure of ingroup wrongdoing to an external agency and can have
important functions for the regulation of moral and legal conduct. Organizational research …