Recent work in social cognition has moved beyond a focus on how people process social
rewards to examine how healthy people represent other agents and how this is altered in …

Introduction Mentalizing is a key aspect of social cognition. Several researchers assume that
mentalization has two systems, an explicit one (conscious, relatively slow, flexible, verbal …

We proved the viability of the general hypothesis that biological motion (BM) processing
serves as a hallmark of social cognition. We assumed that BM processing and inferring …

Social neuroscience offers a wide range of techniques that may be applied to study the
social cognitive deficits that may underlie reduced social functioning—a common feature …

Nonverbal communication habitually leaks out in ways that expose underlying thoughts, true
feelings, and integrity of a counterpart. Social cognition is deficient in a wide range of mental …

Introduction: The ability to detect and interpret social interactions (SI) is one of the crucial
skills enabling people to operate in the social world. Multiple lines of evidence converge to …

Retaining biological motion (BM), or the movements of animate entities, in working memory
(WM) is critical to human social life. Moreover, as functioning members of society, we always …

Numerous lines of research suggest that communicative dyadic actions elicit preferential
processing and more accurate detection compared to similar but individual actions …

Individual differences are shaped by a myriad of interrelated factors depending on how the
nervous system develops, adapts, reacts to, and interacts with the world outer settings. Sex …

Women's aggressive acts are in some circumstances perceived as more intentional but at
the same time more acceptable than male aggression. Women typically display less direct …