Humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate relative to many other species. We review
the neural mechanisms supporting human cooperation, focusing on the prefrontal cortex …

Despite the recent increase in second-person neuroscience research, it is still hard to
understand which neurocognitive mechanisms underlie real-time social behaviours. Here …

Why do many societies moralize apparently harmless pleasures, such as lust, gluttony,
alcohol, drugs, and even music and dance? Why do they erect temperance, asceticism …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

A Handbook of Process Tracing Methods demonstrates how to better understand decision
outcomes by studying decision processes, through the introduction of a number of exciting …

Previous studies have shown the brain synchronization of all team members while
completing a collaborative task. Moreover, this effect is influenced by a team's compositional …

Pairs of participants mutually communicated (or not) biographical information to each other.
By combining simultaneous eye-tracking, face-tracking and functional near-infrared …

Accumulating evidence has consistently shown that team-based sports (such as basketball)
are beneficial to interpersonal cooperation. However, its neural correlate remains to be …

Highlights•Converging evidence implicates the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) in moral goal
pursuit.•The computational architecture of LPFC offers insights into how moral goals are …

Theoretical accounts ascribe the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) a crucial role
in social decision making, but previous studies assessing the rDLPFC's function with …