How does our brain choose the best course of action? Choices between material goods are
thought to be steered by neural value signals that encode the rewarding properties of the …

Empathy, the ability to vicariously experience and to understand the affect of other people, is
fundamental for successful social-cognitive ability and behaviour. Empathy is thought to be a …

Prior studies have highlighted adolescence as a period of increased risk-taking, which is
postulated to result from an overactive reward system in the brain. Longitudinal studies are …

Research has demonstrated that adolescence is an important time for self-and other-
oriented development that underlies many skills vital for becoming a contributing member of …

The onset of adolescence in humans is marked by hormonal changes that give rise to
secondary sexual characteristics, noted as puberty. It has, however, proven challenging to …

Prosocial acts—those that are costly to ourselves but benefit others—are a central
component of human coexistence–. While the financial and moral costs of prosocial …

Individuals experience reward not only when directly receiving positive outcomes (eg, food
or money), but also when observing others receive such outcomes. This latter phenomenon …

It was examined how ventral striatum responses to rewards develop across adolescence
and early adulthood and how individual differences in state‐and trait‐level reward sensitivity …

In this study we use economic exchange games to examine the development of prosocial
behavior in the form of sharing and giving in social interactions with peers across …

The ability to delay gratification increases considerably across development. Here, we test
the hypothesis that this impulse control capacity is driven by increased maturation of …