The mother-child relationship is central to early human development and provides the
foundation that supports socioemotional functioning. Mothers with trauma exposure and …

I argue that the Embracing factor cannot be adequately conceptualized without taking into
account the regulatory power of the social sharing of emotions. Humans tend to share their …

The parent-infant dyad, characterized by contingent social interactions that develop over the
first three months postpartum, may depend heavily on parental brain responses to the infant …

Based on arguments from both philosophical and empirical aesthetics, we hereby propose
that the enjoyment of negative emotions in art and fiction is distinct from the immediate …

At the core of Wilson et al.´ s paper stands the question of intentional change. We propose to
extend this notion by introducing concepts from the domains of innovation and knowledge …

We expand upon Morsella et al.'s synthesis in the direction of what Gibson (1979) called an
ecological approach to perception. Morsella et al. describe consciousness as a director of …

I argue that the scope and strength of unconscious perception have been overestimated in
extant theories. I describe an unconscious binding perspective, and how in conjunction with …

Commentary on our target article centers around six main topics:(1) strategies in modeling
the neurobehavioral foundation of human behavioral traits;(2) clarification of the construct of …

Menninghaus et al. pose two open-ended questions: To what extent do formal elements of
art elicit negative affect, and do artists try to elicit this response in a theory-based or intuitive …