Social animals including humans share a range of social mechanisms that are automatic
and implicit and enable learning by observation. Learning from others includes imitation of …

We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie
social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Genuine moral disagreement exists and is widespread. To understand such disagreement,
we must examine the basic kinds of social relationships people construct across cultures …

Social groups across species rapidly self-organize into hierarchies, where members vary in
their level of power, influence, skill, or dominance. In this review, we explore the nature of …

The last decades of neuroscience research have produced immense progress in the
methods available to understand brain structure and function. Social, cognitive, clinical …

Empathy facilitates prosocial behavior and social understanding. Here, however, we
suggest that the most basic mechanism of empathy—the intuitive sharing of other's …

Embodied cognition accounts posit that concepts are grounded in our sensory and motor
systems. An important challenge for these accounts is explaining how abstract concepts …

The current research explored the neural mechanisms linking social status to perceptions of
the social world. Two fMRI studies provide converging evidence that individuals lower in …

Inferring the relative rank (ie, status) of others is essential to navigating social hierarchies. A
survey of the expanding social psychological and neuroscience literatures on status reveals …