Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

Empathy is an integral part of socioemotional well-being, but recent research has
highlighted some of its downsides. Here we examine literature that establishes when, how …

In recent decades, the ability to represent others' mental states (ie, theory of mind) has
gained particular attention in various disciplines ranging from ethology to cognitive …

Highlights•Socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes are separable; behaviorally and
neurally.•The related neural networks co-activate and interact in complex social …

Research in the scientific literature increasingly demonstrates that empathy consists of
multiple dimensions, and that defining empathy as a single encompassing term may be …

Although neuroscientific research has revealed experience-dependent brain changes
across the life span in sensory, motor, and cognitive domains, plasticity relating to social …

Encountering another's suffering can elicit both empathic distress and empathic care—the
warm desire to affiliate. It remains unclear whether these two feelings can be accurately and …

Humans have the capacity to share others' emotions, be they positive or negative. Elicited by
the observed or imagined emotion of another person, an observer develops a similar …

Highlights•An undifferentiated view of what mindfulness can achieve has developed.•Variant
types of meditation-based mental practices should be studied differentially.•The ReSource …

Empathy in aging is a key capacity because it affects the quality of older adults' relationships
and reduced levels are associated with greater loneliness. Many older adults also find …