Recent research on empathy in humans and other mammals seeks to dissociate emotional
and cognitive empathy. These forms, however, remain interconnected in evolution, across …

Lay intuitions suggest that the ability to share, celebrate, and enjoy others' positive emotions–
a phenomenon we term positive empathy–bolsters individual well‐being and relationship …

Large-scale intrinsic brain systems have been identified for exteroceptive senses (such as
sight, hearing and touch). We introduce an analogous system for representing sensations …

Affect inductions have become essential for testing theories of affect and for conducting
experimental research on the effects of mood and emotion. The current review takes stock of …

The topic of typical sex and gender difference in empathy is examined in both a
developmental and neuroscientific perspective. Empathy is construed as a multi‐layered …

Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate
generosity. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging and a public pledge …

The right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is widely considered as part of a network that
reorients attention to task-relevant, but currently unattended stimuli (Corbetta and Shulman …

Racial discrimination in social behavior, although disapproved of by many contemporary
cultures, has been widely reported. Because empathy plays a key functional role in social …

This meta-analysis explores the role of the posterior cerebellum Crus I/II in social
mentalizing. We identified over 200 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies …

Empathy, feeling what others feel, is regarded as a special phenomenon that is separate
from other emotional experiences. Emotion theories say little about feeling emotions for …