Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has been implicated in a variety of social,
cognitive, and affective functions that are commonly disrupted in mental illness. In this …

Emotions are one of the most apparent and important aspects of our lives, yet have
remained one of the most enigmatic to explain scienti cally. On the one hand, nothing seems …

How does our brain choose the best course of action? Choices between material goods are
thought to be steered by neural value signals that encode the rewarding properties of the …

Cooperation is central to human social behaviour,,,,,,,,. However, choosing to cooperate
requires individuals to incur a personal cost to benefit others. Here we explore the cognitive …

A growing body of research has focused on so-called 'utilitarian'judgments in moral
dilemmas in which participants have to choose whether to sacrifice one person in order to …

Morally judicious behavior forms the fabric of human sociality. Here, we sought to investigate
neural activity associated with different facets of moral thought. Previous research suggests …

Recent evidence suggests that there are two possible systems for empathy: a basic
emotional contagion system and a more advanced cognitive perspective-taking system …

Given that we live in highly complex social environments, many of our most important
decisions are made in the context of social interactions. Simple but sophisticated tasks from …

The psychological and neurobiological processes underlying moral judgement have been
the focus of many recent empirical studies,,,,,,,,,,. Of central interest is whether emotions play …