Emotional signals, notably those signaling threat, benefit from prioritized processing in the
human brain. Yet, it remains unclear whether perceptual decisions about the emotional …

In the interplay of fear and avoidance, not only imminent threat signals that directly predict
potential threat evoke avoidance, but also distal threat signals that predict these imminent …

Social adaptation requires humans to respond to others' nonverbal emotional cues, by
selecting and executing adaptive motor responses. In this chapter, we provide a general …

Depression is linked to dysfunctional appetitive and aversive motivational systems and effort-
based decision-making, yet whether such deficits extend to social decisions remains …

The search for neural correlates of emotional consciousness has gained momentum in the
last decades. Nonetheless, disagreements concerning the mechanisms that determine the …

Socially-relevant signals benefit from prioritized processing, from initial orientation to
behavioral choice elaboration. Yet it remains unclear whether such prioritized processing …