Increasing evidence suggests that mental health and physical health are linked by neural
systems that jointly regulate somatic physiology and high-level cognition. Key systems …

Belief updating is a relatively nascent field of research that examines how people adjust
their beliefs in light of new evidence. So far, belief updating has been investigated in partly …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by an excessive fear of social evaluation and
a persistently negative view of the self. Here we test the hypothesis that negative biases in …

Beliefs and expectations often persist despite evidence to the contrary. Here we examine
two potential mechanisms underlying such 'self-reinforcing'expectancy effects in the pain …

In today's organizations, employees have an ever-growing variety of Instant Messaging (IM)
technology to use to assist with the performance of their work activities. The use of an instant …

Negative schemas lie at the core of many common and debilitating mental disorders. Thus,
intervention scientists and clinicians have long recognized the importance of designing …

Instructions, suggestions, and other types of social information can have powerful effects on
pain and emotion. Prominent examples include observational learning, social influence …

Organisms learn from prediction errors (PEs) to predict the future. Laboratory studies using
small financial outcomes find that humans use PEs to update expectations and link …

Studies in the field of social neuroscience have recently made use of computational models
of decision-making to provide new insights into how we learn about the self and others …

Persistent physical symptoms (PPS) are distressing, difficult to treat, and pose a major
challenge to health care providers and systems. In this article, we review two disparate …