This article surveys philosophical and scientific issues arising from questions about animal
consciousness. These questions include: which animals have consciousness and what (if …

What is social pressure, and how could it be adaptive to conform to others' expectations?
Existing accounts highlight the importance of reputation and social sanctions. Yet, conformist …

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Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financial Times; A …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Since the rise of cognitive psychology in the early 1970s,“social cognition” has become the
dominant concept in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to denote the processes …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

In this article, I sketch an enactive account of autism. For the enactive approach to cognition,
embodiment, experience, and social interaction are fundamental to understanding mind and …

Current theories of social cognition are mainly based on a representationalist view.
Moreover, they focus on a rather sophisticated and limited aspect of understanding others, ie …

We distinguish between three philosophical views on the neuroscience of predictive models:
predictive coding (associated with internal Bayesian models and prediction error …

Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of
social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific …