The Ancestral Logic of Politics: Upper Body Strength Regulates Men’s...
Over human evolutionary history, upper body strength has been a major component of fighting ability. Evolutionary models of animal conflict predict that actors with greater fighting ability will more...
View ArticleRestoring Damaged Trust with Promises, Atonement and Apology
In an experiment using two consecutive trust games, we study how “cheap” signals such as promises and messages are used to restore damaged trust and encourage new trust where it did not previously...
View ArticleBuilding and Rebuilding Trust with Promises and Apologies
Using trust games, we study how promises and messages are used to build new trust where it did not previously exist and to rebuild damaged trust. In these games, trustees made non-binding promises of...
View ArticleTrust in Humans, Robots, and Cyborgs: Treated the Same, but Experienced...
Human-robot and human-cyborg interactions requiring trust are increasingly common in the marketplace, workplace, on the road, and in the home, yet little is known about human willingness to make...
View ArticleThe Origins of Criminal Law
Laws against wrongdoing may originate in justice intuitions that are part of universal human nature, according to the adaptationist theory of the origins of criminal law. This theory proposes that laws...
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