Humans require a shared conceptualization of others' emotions for adaptive social
functioning. A concept is a mental blueprint that gives our brains parameters for predicting …

Highlights•Newborns vitally depend on a caregiver for physiological regulation, or
allostasis.•Parent-infant physiological synchronization is an efficient parental strategy to …

Humans in different cultures develop a similar capacity to recognize the emotional signals of
diverse facial expressions. This capacity is mediated by a brain network that involves …

Our daily emotional experience is a complex construct that usually involves multiple
emotions blended in a context-dependent manner. However, the co-occurring and context …

Competent social organisms will read the social signals of their peers. In primates, the face
has evolved to transmit the organism's internal emotional state. Adaptive action suggests …

The majority of research on infants' and children's understanding of emotional expressions
has focused on their abilities to use emotional expressions to infer how other people feel …

Research on emotion attribution has tended to focus on the perception of overt expressions
of at most five or six basic emotions. However, our ability to identify others' emotional states …

Human adults can process emotional information both with and without conscious
awareness, and it has been suggested that the two processes rely on partly distinct brain …

We cannot help but impute emotions to the behaviors of others, and constantly infer not only
what others are feeling, but also why they feel that way. The comprehension of other …

Humans' experience of emotion and comprehension of affective cues varies substantially
across the lifespan. Work in cognitive and affective neuroscience has begun to characterize …