How peer relationships influence adolescents' reasoning about theft-based moral transgressions.

Two studies ( = 1,153) investigated how adolescents reason about whether to report a transgression committed by a close friend versus distant classmate. In Study 1, sixth-ninth graders ( = 12.36 years, = 1.

What we would (but shouldn't) do for those we love: Universalism versus partiality in responding to others' moral transgressions.

Recent work indicates that people are more likely to protect a close (vs. distant) other who commits a crime. But do people think it is morally right to treat close others differently? On the one hand, universalist moral principles dictate that people should be treated equally.

Effects of Task Constraint on Action Dynamics.

The actualization of action possibilities (i.e., affordances) can often be accomplished in numerous ways.

Collective Narcissism: Americans Exaggerate the Role of Their Home State in Appraising U.S. History.

Collective narcissism-a phenomenon in which individuals show excessively high regard for their own group-is ubiquitous in studies of small groups. We examined how Americans from the 50 U.S.