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Free will is assumed to be the core of an individual’s self-concept. Belief in free will has been studied extensively and was found to be correlated with many behavioral or psychological outcomes.

Evidence for the prioritization of moral information in cognitive processes is mixed.

Psychological science aims at understanding human mind and behavior, but it primarily relies on subjects from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic regions, i.e., the WEIRD problem.

The self-prioritization effect (SPE) refers to the effect that performance on cognitive tasks is better when stimuli are related to the self than when they are not.

A construct is a concept proposed by a researcher to represent an object of interest. Constructs serve as core media for scientific communication in research.

Culture is a key determinant of children’s development both in its own right and for understanding the generalizability of developmental phenomena.

Drift diffusion models (DDM) are widely used to investigate decision-making processes in psychology.

In the last two decades, developmental neuroscience results had been cited in legal cases around the world. It may concern that these neuroscientific results are over-persuasive, i.e., neuroscience bias, as previous studies reported such an over-persuasiveness effect of neuroscientific results when compared to behavioral results in adult cases.