Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

Human foragers are obligately group-living, and their high dependence on mutual aid is
believed to have characterized our species' social evolution. It was therefore a central …

Highlights•Pride, shame, anger, fear, sadness, disgust, contempt, envy, and admiration, help
individuals navigate social hierarchies.•Subjective experiences of these emotions motivate …

In engineering, form follows function. It is therefore difficult to understand an engineered
object if one does not examine it in light of its function. Just as understanding the structure of …

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that there are two major dimensions of social perception,
often called warmth and competence, and that warmth is prioritized over competence in …

Competing theories of status allocation posit divergent conceptual foundations upon which
human status hierarchies are built. We argue that the three prominent theories of status …

Trust-based interactions with robots are increasingly common in the marketplace,
workplace, on the road, and in the home. However, a valid concern is that people may not …

Friendships can foster happiness, health, and reproductive fitness. However, friendships
end—even when we might not want them to. A primary reason for this is interference from …

Anger appears to be a neurocognitive adaptation designed to bargain for better treatment,
and is primarily triggered by indications that another individual values the focal individual …

Social emotions are hypothesized to be adaptations designed by selection to solve adaptive
problems pertaining to social valuation—the disposition to attend to, associate with, and aid …