Despite global increases in diversity, social prejudices continue to fuel intergroup conflict,
disparities and discrimination. Moreover, as norms have become more egalitarian …

We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie
social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the …

Little is known about the neurobiological mechanisms underlying prosocial decisions and
how they are modulated by social factors such as perceived group membership. The present …

The faces we encounter throughout our lives make different impressions on us: Some are
remembered at first glance, while others are forgotten. Previous work has found that the …

A set of face stimuli called the NimStim Set of Facial Expressions is described. The goal in
creating this set was to provide facial expressions that untrained individuals, characteristic of …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

Faces are widely used as stimuli in various research fields. Interest in emotion-related
differences and age-associated changes in the processing of faces is growing. With the aim …

Empires rise and fall. Majority groups shrink to mere plurality. Political generations succeed
each other. Parents age, and children grow up. Even department chairs come and go. Each …

We are an intensely social species—it has been argued that our social nature defines what
makes us human, what makes us conscious or what gave us our large brains. As a new …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …