Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs.
Despite its ubiquity, the psychological and neurophysiological nature of pain remains …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

The application of neurophysiological methods to study the effects of advertising on
consumer purchase behavior has seen an enormous growth in recent years. However, little …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review examines recent (2016 onwards) neuroscientific
findings on the mechanisms supporting mindfulness-associated pain relief. To date, its clear …

While being in the center of attention and exposed to other's evaluations humans are prone
to experience embarrassment. To characterize the neural underpinnings of such aversive …

Mental simulation is an important aspect of narrative reading. In a previous study, we found
that gaze durations are differentially impacted by different kinds of mental simulation. Motor …

Mentalizing, conventionally defined as the process in which we infer the inner thoughts and
intentions of others, is a fundamental component of human social cognition. Yet its role, and …

As social animals, humans are unique to make the world function well by developing,
maintaining, and enforcing social norms. As a prerequisite among these norm-related …

Although the majority of our social interactions are with people we know, few studies have
investigated the neural correlates of sharing valuable resources with familiar others. Using …