New behavioural and neuroscientific evidence on the development of fairness behaviours
demonstrates that the signatures of human fairness can be traced into childhood. Children …

One influential view holds that children's sense of fairness emerges at age 8 and is rooted in
the development of an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Here, we suggest two …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Urban green space (UGS) has positive impacts on people's physical and mental health.
Equal access to UGS for all people, regardless of their individual characteristics, is key to the …

Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

Our goal in this paper is to use an evolutionary approach to explain the existence and
design features of human moral cognition. Our premise is that humans are under selection …

Recent research on distributive justice suggests that young children prefer equal
distributions. But sometimes unequal distributions are justified, such as when some …

To understand themselves as playing a social role, individuals must understand themselves
to be contributing to a cooperative endeavor. Psychologically, the form of cooperation …

Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy is especially important for those who may not be well-
represented in technology design. We worked with ten Black girls in fifth and sixth grade …

This study examined how children's perceptions of economic inequalities impacted their
moral judgments about access to opportunities. The sample included ethnically diverse 8-to …