Humans are social creatures, engaging almost constantly in social behaviors that serve
ultimate social goals, such as forming strong bonds with one another. However, most social …

The rewarding properties of social interactions are essential for the expression of social
behavior and the development of adaptive social relationships. Here, we review sex …

We present a deflationary account of smartphone addiction by situating this purportedly
antisocial phenomenon within the fundamentally social dispositions of our species. While …

An exploration-exploitation trade-off, the arbitration between sampling a lesser-known
against a known rich option, is thought to be solved using computationally demanding …

Social reward is critical for social relationships, and yet we know little about the
characteristics of social interactions that are rewarding or the neural mechanisms underlying …

Despite broad interest, experimental evidence for gender differences in social abilities
remains inconclusive. Two important factors may have limited previous results:(i) a lack of …

Social decision making is a highly complex process that involves diverse cognitive
mechanisms, and it is driven by the precise processing of information from both the …

Purpose This paper aims to take the “toxic masculinity”(TM) trope as a starting point to
examine recent cultural shifts in common assumptions about gender, morality and relations …

Dopamine (DA) plays a key role in reward processing and is implicated in psychological
disorders such as depression, substance use, and schizophrenia. The role of DA in reward …

Green consumption is associated with femininity. This green‐feminine stereotype has been
accused of deterring men from buying green products to protect their gender identity. Here …