Intense controversy surrounds the question of when children first understand that others can
hold false beliefs. Results from traditional tasks suggest that false-belief understanding does …

When people judge acts of kindness or cruelty, they often look beyond the act itself to infer
the agent's motives. These inferences, in turn, can powerfully influence moral judgements …

Recent research suggests that the foundations of human moral cognition include abstract
principles of fairness and ingroup support. We examined which principle 1.5-y-old infants …

One pervasive facet of human interactions is the tendency to favor ingroups over outgroups.
Remarkably, this tendency has been observed even when individuals are assigned to …

Over the past decade, numerous studies have reported that infants prefer prosocial agents
(those who provide help, comfort, or fairness in distributive actions) to antisocial agents …

The nature and underpinnings of infants' seemingly complex, third-party, social evaluations
remain highly contentious. Theoretical perspectives oscillate between rich and lean …

Recently, theory-of-mind research has been revolutionized by findings from novel implicit
tasks suggesting that at least some aspects of false-belief reasoning develop earlier in …

Humans' preference for others who share our group membership is well documented, and
this heightened valuation of in-group members seems to be rooted in early development …

Adults routinely make sense of others' actions by inferring the mental states that underlie
these actions. Over the past two decades, developmental researchers have made significant …

Recent findings from new implicit looking time tasks indicate that children show anticipatory
looking patterns suggesting false belief processing from very early on; however, systematic …