The possibility of predicting the specific features of forthcoming environmental events is
fundamental for our survival since it allows us to proactively regulate our behaviour …

A body of research indicates that people are prone to overestimate the affective impact of
future events. Here, we developed a novel experimental paradigm to study these affective …

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is a transdiagnostic construct referring to the aversive
interpretation of contexts characterized by uncertainty. Indeed, there is a growing body of …

Emotions were recently reconsidered as predictions, constructed by the brain (generation
stage) to prearrange action (implementation stage), and update internal models according to …

Research on social threat has shown influences of various factors, such as agent
characteristics, proximity, and social interaction on social threat perception. An important, yet …

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and robot technology, social robotics are
increasingly integrated into people's daily life. Among them, an emerging application …

Affective processing plays a crucial role in human life. Deficits in affective processing are
accompanied by mental problems including depression, anxiety, and addiction. Noninvasive …

The brain helps individuals build expectations based on emotional prediction, facilitating the
processing of faces in social interactions. Due to the intricacy of the environment, accurately …

It is unclear whether metacognitive judgments are made on the basis of domain-generality
or domain-specificity. In the current study, we compared both behavioral and event-related …

From a biological point of view, accurate anticipation about the future, particularly future
benefits and harms, according to nonemotional (NEC) and emotional cues (EC) implied in …