People often align their behaviors with group opinions, known as social conformity. Many
neuroscience studies have explored the neuropsychological mechanisms underlying social …

The willingness to incur personal costs to enforce prosocial norms represents a hallmark of
human civilization. Although recent neuroscience studies have used the ultimatum game to …

Social dysfunction is a prominent source of distress and disability in patients with major
depressive disorder (MDD) but is commonly omitted from current clinical studies, although …

Social comparison is ubiquitous across human societies with dramatic influence on people's
well‐being and decision making. Downward comparison (comparing to worse‐off others) …

Humans altruistically punish violators of social norms to enforce cooperation and pro‐social
behaviors. However, such altruistic behaviors diminish when others are present, due to a …

In human society, which is organized by social hierarchies, resources are usually allocated
unequally and based on social status. In this study, we analyze how being endowed with …

Third-party punishment plays a crucial role in fairness norm enforcement. The present study
investigated how punishment cost would affect third-parties' behavioral and neural …

The present study recorded event-related potentials using rapid serial visual presentation
paradigm to explore the time course of emotionally charged pictures. Participants completed …

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 …

The ability to accurately infer one's place with respect to others is crucial for social
interactions. Individuals tend to evaluate their own actions and outcomes by comparing …