Do acts of kindness improve the well-being of the actor? Recent advances in the
behavioural sciences have provided a number of explanations of human social, cooperative …

Maslow's pyramid of human needs, proposed in 1943, has been one of the most cognitively
contagious ideas in the behavioral sciences. Anticipating later evolutionary views of human …

What is morality? And to what extent does it vary around the world? The theory of “morality-
as-cooperation” argues that morality consists of a collection of biological and cultural …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

Abstract Morality-as-Cooperation (MAC) is the theory that morality is a collection of
biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human social …

Interest in and research on disgust has surged over the past few decades. The field,
however, still lacks a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the evolved function …

What is morality, where does it come from, and how does it work? Scholars have struggled
with these questions for millennia. But we now have a scientific answer. The theory of …

Dual-system approaches to psychology explain the fundamental properties of human
judgment, decision making, and behavior across diverse domains. Yet, the appropriate …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

What is the function of disgust? Whereas traditional models have suggested that disgust
serves to protect the self or neutralize reminders of our animal nature, an evolutionary …